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A scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them. The film sports a 78% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: In the Earth’s bleak kaleidoscope of horror is a hallucinogenic meditation on the residual pandemic fears that haunt humanity. Joel Fry stars along with Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece ...

News · Published February 12, 2021 The Scottish Highlands Are A LONELY PLACE TO DIE: A Retrospective of 2011’s Survival Horror Starring Melissa George The Scottish Highlands Are A LONELY PLACE TO DIE: A Retrospective of 2011s Survival Horror Starring Melissa George By Chad Collins Calibration is key in survival thrillers. Strain credulity too often and you risk compromising the audiences’ su...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) turns his directing skills towards his debut documentary by exploring every single one of the albums made by the offbeat band Sparks. Why you must know this before heading into this musical epic is that these two tempestuous brothers, Ron and Russell Mael, have made 25 albums over a 50-year period. While Wright sets things up as their ultimate super-fan, he follows through two-fold by placing the countless interviews over numerous live performances. After hear...

Rolling Stone The Best Movies We Saw at Sundance 2021 From a postapocalyptic genre flick to a handful of brilliant, offbeat docs about our current moment — these were the films at this year’s festival that moved and marked us By The Sundance Institute, 3 It was a given that this year’s all-virtual, all-living-room-screenings-all-the-time Sundance was going to seem a little strange. Having experienced a few pandemic-corrective festivals already over the past 10 months, a ...

Made during a pandemic, with a fictional pandemic slithering around a story that taps into both the spiritual powers of nature and the mental effects of isolation, In the Earth uniquely captures the mood we’ve been clawing our way through for nearly a year now. It’s freaky, but it feels alarmingly relatable too. Advertisement High-Rise) slick Netflix production In the Earth, which has tendrils of his earlier films (especially Kill List, Sightseers, and A Field in England) curling aroun...

In the Earth Review: Treat Yourself to a Shot of COVID-Inspired Wheatley Weirdness In the Earth Review: Treat Yourself to a Shot of COVID-Inspired Wheatley Weirdness Its somehow fitting that a horror helmer whose career kicked off with viral videos has gone and made a pandemic movie that infects the id. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 100 MIN. Courtesy of Sundance Institute Last year, Ben Wheatley released a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca�...

Sightseers and The Kill List, two very different genre films that showcase his versatility with different versions of the horror genre ( Sightseers is a horror-comedy and The Kill List is a slow-moving folk horror). Then, there was High Rise and Free Fire. Most recently, there was the stumble of Netflix’s Rebecca. Despite a tumultuous career of ups, downs, and genres, Wheatley has now headed back to his creepy roots with In the Earth. A pandemic has ravaged the world, causing mass paran...

IN THE EARTH Is a Trippy, Tense Horror Triumph Twitter 0 comments It’s truly a marvel that any film productions took place in 2020, let alone anything good. A testament indeed to the resilience of filmmakers and crews for adhering to heightened COVID-19 guideless and still managed great things.  In the Earth feels like an extra triumph, not even a glimmer in writer-director Ben Wheatley’s mind until the early days of lockdown. After writing the script, his was one of the first UK producti...

15 movies to catch at the (virtual) 2021 Sundance Film Festival—from a look at the band Sparks to the lost "black Woodstock" concert film.

0 comments The Sundance Film Festival has been the first big fest of the calendar year since 1978. It exhibits some of the freshest and most exciting movies you’re likely to see. Many will end up with awards consideration come the end of the year. Sundance was one of the only film festivals to take place in the traditional form in 2020. But as we’re still in the thick of it, the premier American gathering of cinema has had to go virtual for 2021. The good news is it’s still happening. Be...