Variety picks Donovan's "Riki Tiki Tavi" as one of 2022's "Best Needle Drops"
12/21/2022
Donovan's "Riki Tiki Tavi" is highlighted by Variety as one of the "Best Needle Drops of 2022":
During the tensest scene of this year’s horror hit “Barbarian,” Tess (Georgina Campbell) is creeping down a long, dark hallway deep in the basement of her Detroit Airbnb, searching for her new friend Keith (Bill Skarsgård), who is screaming in distress. She finds him and they come across a giant mutant, which quickly kills Keith and turns its attention to Tess. Smash cut to…a sunny stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway, where Justin Long — playing a character we haven’t met yet — is singing at the top of his lungs to the whimsical Donovan classic “Riki Tiki Tavi” in his convertible, without a care in the world. It’s a perfect signal to the audience that ‘Barbarian’ isn’t just a conventional creature feature. – Bill Earl
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