Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
Horse Girl is a distinctive psychological drama anchored by Alison Brie's fearless, deeply committed performance, which she also co-wrote. The film's blurring of mental illness, supernatural conspiracy, and grief is genuinely unsettling and singular in its execution — it refuses easy categorization or resolution. Brie's portrayal of a woman unraveling is raw and convincing, earning a well-above-average acting mark. The film's conception is highly original, threading social anxiety, sleepwalking, and possible delusion into an uncomfortable spiral. The cinematography is serviceable but not especially distinguished. The ending, deliberately ambiguous to the point of frustration, leaves many viewers cold — it commits fully to its unresolved state but sacrifices emotional payoff in a way that feels less earned than simply incomplete.