Flux Gourmet
By Paul Weissman June 23, 2022
Saying that this is Peter Strickland’s most accessible film to date, which it is, in no way means that it is accessible.
Saying that this is Peter Strickland’s most accessible film to date, which it is, in no way means that it is accessible.
Don’t believe the hype. If audiences flee to the exits, it is most likely for the airless, glum atmosphere and the murky, metaphorical screenplay rather than the gore.
Childhood is a time when boundaries are set and tested. As such, the line between kindness and cruelty can be especially hazy. René Clément’s Forbidden Games (1952) dramatizes two children’s fascination with death, which leads them to kill an animal; Richard Hughes’s brilliant novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) views a group of children […]
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Director Goran Stolevski’s folk/psychological/body/art-house horror may burrow under your skin and lodge itself there.
Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.
While offering up a lot of intriguing ideas, A Banquet works quite well as a domestic drama but falls short as horror.
A convent becomes the site of a reported demonic possession.
It is through the quiet, accumulation of unsettling details and development of mood that Lamb derives its power.