"After spending the last Knives Out entry on a billionaire's private Greek island, master sleuth Benoit Blanc's latest mystery Wake Up Dead Man takes him to a remote parish in upstate New York to solve the murder of a priest (Josh Brolin). It's a classic locked door mystery, with Brolin's monsignor stabbed mid-mass in a closet a few feet from his pulpit."
"That in itself is both why the movies look different and why there's a throughline. On the one hand, these movies are so different. The last one was set in sun-drenched Greece in a big cement villa. This one is Gothic, and we've got a church and horror movie elements. So, you're going to automatically end up with stuff that's different. On the other hand, in all the films we're solving puzzles with these big ensembles."
Wake Up Dead Man relocates Benoit Blanc to a remote upstate New York parish where a monsignor is stabbed mid-mass, creating a locked-door murder mystery. The suspect pool includes a reassigned young priest and a tightly knit congregation featuring a dumped doctor, an injured musician, a paranoid novelist, and a lawyer. Steve Yedlin returns as cinematographer, emphasizing visual solutions that serve ensemble puzzles rather than rigid stylistic rules. The film contrasts Gothic, church-based horror elements with the sun-drenched settings of previous entries. Yedlin favors zooms and disfavors describing lenses in wine-tasting terms.
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