real world of the COVID-obsessed left for the last year. Perched on the razor-thin boundary between lucidity and madness, it gnaws at the nerves and bludgeons the senses until submission — to humanity’s helplessness in the face of the ancient world’s elemental power—is the only recourse. Again, hello, lefties. Ben Wheatley’s forest horror IN THE EARTH — not much there there, despite starting with one of the better evocations of life during a pandemic https://t.co/7Uq13jGgnq Here’s more, via Yahoo: [“In the Earth” revolves around] Martin Lowery (Joel Fry), an unassuming researcher who arrives at a remote English facility where pandemic protocols are the order of the day.