SHE WILL - streaming on AMC+ and Shudder
Cabin in the woods? Check.
Weird folk horror trappings? Check.
Creepy score? Check.
Witches? Check.
Owing an obvious debt to Dario Argento (who just so happens to have produced this effort), Charlotte Colbert’s debut feature is a dreamy, art-house horror offering that slides by the eyes with lush imagery and an eerie tone of feminine vengeance and nature’s immense power. A little uneven at times (there’s a somewhat incongruous comedic performance from Rupert Everett, for example, plus some overt #MeToo allusions), the film is beautifully shot, has fantastic sound design, and the preternatural elements stir up enough unease and tension to make it thoroughly engaging, not to mention just a tad thought provoking.
The concepts of transformation and revenge are as old as the horror genre itself, but here they are unleashed with such visual flair as to make them seem sufficiently fresh.
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