

He kills another cannibal who is looking to trade gasoline for her flesh and reveals that he was put into the lawless territory because he was an illegal immigrant from Cuba. Upon threat of death, he demands that she find his daughter in Comfort.Īrlen and Miami Man grow closer on their journey to Comfort. Hallucinating, Arlen wanders out into the desert, where Miami Man finds her. In Comfort, Arlen takes a hallucinogen at a rave held by The Dream, the cult-like leader of Comfort, and loses track of the child, who is taken in by The Dream. The hermit, in exchange for a hand-sketched portrait, advises Miami Man to "find Comfort". Miami Man, a leader of the cannibals and the father of Honey, goes looking for her, finding the dead woman, and then the hermit. She is observed by the hermit as she takes the girl, Honey, back to Comfort. Accusing the woman of being part of the cannibal community, Arlen shoots her in the head. Investigating a golf cart similar to the one used by the cannibals, she finds a woman and little girl scavenging in a garbage dump. She walks out to the desert with a pistol. She is rescued in the desert by a mute hermit, who takes her to a makeshift settlement named Comfort that has all-night raves.įive months later, Arlen has a prosthetic leg and a home in Comfort. Arlen tricks the woman into unchaining her, kills her, observes cannibalism of human limbs, and escapes crawling on a skateboard. When she wakes chained up, a woman cuts off her right arm and leg. Arlen is soon kidnapped by two women in a golf cart. A sign declares the area outside of the US and that American laws and citizenship no longer apply. It received a limited release in theaters on June 23, 2017, in addition to streaming on Netflix.Ī young woman named Arlen is exiled to a desert outside Texas, where people deemed undesirable by the government (the "bad batch") are forced to fend for themselves. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. The film also stars Jim Carrey, Giovanni Ribisi, and Diego Luna. The film is about a young woman ( Suki Waterhouse) exiled to a desert where she is attacked by a group of cannibals (led by Jason Momoa), barely escaping alive to a bizarre settlement run by a charismatic leader ( Keanu Reeves). The Bad Batch is a 2016 American dystopian thriller film directed and written by Ana Lily Amirpour.
