The Woman in Cabin 10 on Netflix: A sloppy attempt at gaslighting

It’s debatable how much the term “gaslighting” can be applied to the Netflix thriller The Woman in Cabin 10. On a scale from a note-perfect summoning of the 1944 film Gaslight (which involves a scheming man manipulating his new wife into thinking she’s crazy) to just using the word to describe garden-variety lying, it falls somewhere in the middle. But it’s clearly intended to recall classics like Gaslight and more conspiracy-minded descendants — mysteries like Flightplan or Breakdown, where the search for a missing person is complicated by others insisting the person was never there to begin with. On this level, TheWoman in Cabin 10 is a sloppy belly-flop into the drink.