Egerton in 'Everybody Wants to F*ck Me' TIFF Review — SkimNews
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- 'Everybody Wants to Fuck Me' premiered at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival and is currently seeking U.S. distribution, with Jonathan Schey directing his debut feature.
- Taron Egerton plays Adam Samuels, a London womanizer who beds every woman he meets but never sleeps with any of them twice — until he takes an unknown drug at the house of grad student Sofia (Jessica Henwick) and wakes up cursed with universal female lust.
- Jessica Henwick's Sofia disappears after administering the drug, setting up a gender-reversal horror riff on the 2019 film 'Obsession' (with Bear) and 'What Women Want' that escalates from giggling co-workers to an older woman targeting Adam on the Tube and a colleague cornering him in an office bathroom.
- Charly Clive co-stars as Emma, Adam's lesbian best friend and wingman whose seven-months-pregnant domesticity contrasts with his pathological promiscuity and whose eye-rolls are the only accountability he receives.
- The review argues the film is more invested in escalating its premise for laughs and jump-scares than in forcing Adam to confront his own behavior, comparing its self-aware cynicism to its protagonist's MUBI-tote-bag pretensions.
- Director Jonathan Schey displays 'a solid aptitude for iterating on the omnipresent sex terror of It Follows,' according to the review, but the script 'is neither secure enough in its ideas to push the envelope' past a few cringe moments nor interested enough in its characters to develop their personal drama.
Why it matters: The review frames 'Everybody Wants to Fuck Me' as a horror comedy that wants to have its gender-politics cake and seduce the audience with it, mirroring its protagonist's bait-and-switch tactics — the final scene cheekily admits the movie was never sincerely interrogating its own themes, undermining whatever social commentary the premise might have delivered. With the film still seeking U.S. distribution out of TIFF, buyers will have to decide whether Egerton's game performance and the provocative title outweigh a script the critic judges intellectually evasive.
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