Am nächsten Morgen hört Travis Andrew stark husten und Kim sagen, dass sie das Haus verlassen müssen. We are literally watching history and humanity repeating itself," and this offers a "somber, melancholic" and timeless air to the film.

And that segued into everything else that was going on in my mind: the personal, the paintings, these books, everything I’d been thinking about. What sets this film, which is, on its face, firmly ensconced in the post-apocalyptic genre apart, is that it is precisely not about zombies. [11] Im Rahmen der Golden Tomato Awards des Jahres 2017 ging der Film als Drittplatzierter in der Kategorie Best Horror Movie hervor. Trey Edward Shults is the writer, director and editor of KRISHA and IT COMES AT NIGHT. Too often, in a culture that has become rather amnesiac, where the internet has given all images the same weight (which is no weight, because YouTube treats a goofy commercial from the '80s with the same archival respect as a classic opera or silent film) many filmmakers, and artists in general, can fail to become exposed to the heritage of art that precedes, and lights the way backwards, into the human story, a story of joy and horror, life and death, played out in allusion, symbol, and metaphor (visual or otherwise). The plague led to the idea of quarantine, and, in the minds of some thinkers, to the modern world itself, via collection of information, quantification, and separation, on a new scale. Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. To my mind, it's an object lesson in the ways that film genre is not just based upon film genre, but rather, like stone accruing over eons, only appears so because time and density create an illusion: from the top one can only see the most recent layers. Collins’ Crypt: HALLOWEEN 6 - Producer’s Cut vs Theatrical Cut, PSA: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross’ WAVES Score Is Now Available, “Godspeed”: Trey Edward Shults On WAVES, His Most Personal Film Yet, WAVES Review: A Dizzying Portrait Of A Family In Crisis. I love how this family unravels with these ghosts in The Shining. I love the power dynamic shift that goes on in Night of the Living Dead. Subscribe to receive the free PDF! Then a … We are literally watching history and humanity repeating itself.". And in The Thing, The Shining and Night of the Living Dead, what I personally love is what the monsters or the zombies or the ghosts do to the people in the films. Paul schlägt vor, dass sie sich für einige Tage in zwei getrennten Zimmern isolieren, um sicherzustellen, dass niemand infiziert ist. The film repeatedly displays The Triumph of Death, the classic, horrific painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted c. 1562 during a period of European history where war was a fire that raged every few years, along with the Bubonic plague, with the two bringing a dance of death to the people of Europe with the regularity of grim seasons.