Get Out can’t get out of its own way, stumbling from outstanding in-group out-group frights to Phantasm body-snatcher silliness. With an opener depicting upper-crust suburbia as terrifyingly as the original Halloween, a random African American man is suddenly murdered walking through a gated community. The tension is agonizing, compounded by teeth-chattering musical accompaniment. Shifting gearsContinue reading “Get Out”
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Backcountry
The reasons for fearing the outdoors in horror are four-fold: getting lost, hunted down by a slasher in the woods, accosted by a family of backwoods types, but rarely, getting attacked by an animal. Backcountry hints at two of these, and delivers a third. And each is done well enough that the flick could’ve takenContinue reading “Backcountry”
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