IN THE EARTH directed by Ben Wheatley (UK/USA, 2021)
How do make a horror movie during a full-blown pandemic? First, lockdown rules dictate that you must have a small, socially distanced cast. Second, the film has to be shot well away from urban ‘civilisation’.
Ben Wheatley achieves this with ‘In The Earth’, a movie that not only references a Covid-19 style global calamity but also uses the virus to tentatively explore the implications for the future of humanity.
The extent of its serious message is, however, mitigated by some folkloric mumbo jumbo surrounding a made up myth of a woodland monster (or process) that answers to the name of Parnag Fegg.
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