What happens if Nature is forced upon us? Would we like it? We have to admit that no matter how much we discover about Nature, it always feels like there’s more than what our senses can perceive. There is this conjuring harmony that we can only try to feel and admire in awe; sometimes, we run towards it, and sometimes we run away from it. “In the Earth” takes this premise to a whole new level and, in that endeavor, attempts to maintain a certain bleakness that comes with the cause. What’s striking is how awareness regarding a pandemic (a potential end-of-times event if we see it through the film’s perspective) makes “In the Earth” less bleak as we realize how close to reality it is and can be. Here’s more on it:
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‘In The Earth’ Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?
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‘In The Earth’ Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?
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- 3/30/2023
- by Shubhabrata Dutta
- Film Fugitives
When it comes to writer/director Ben Wheatley all bets are really well and truly off. Over the course of his career, he has released a divisive, incredible and disturbing collection of pictures upon us, some better than others but every film his name is on is immediately one that you must see to make up your own mind on. It is quite the trick to be a director whose work, no matter what form it takes, demands your undivided attention and Wheatley’s latest, in folkish horror In The Earth, may be his most psychedelic film yet.
The film is set in the late stages of a pandemic ravaged world (familiar?), as people are looking for some semblance of normality again, learning to live in spite of the virus, and seeking the right cure. Martin Lowery (rising star Joel Fry) is a scientist sent to a government-controlled outpost in the forestlands of Bristol,...
The film is set in the late stages of a pandemic ravaged world (familiar?), as people are looking for some semblance of normality again, learning to live in spite of the virus, and seeking the right cure. Martin Lowery (rising star Joel Fry) is a scientist sent to a government-controlled outpost in the forestlands of Bristol,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
Stars: Joel Fry, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero | Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley
In the Earth, the new film from Ben Wheatley (Kill List), begins with images all to familiar images of people in masks and hazmat suits. Here, as in real life, the world is in the grip of a pandemic. It’s against this backdrop that Martin Lowery (Joel Fry; Silent Night) arrives at a vacation lodge repurposed as a research facility. He’s there to try to find Olivia Wendle (Hayley Squires; In Fabric) a scientist who went missing in the surrounding forest.
With Alma, one of the park rangers as a guide he ventures into the woods. It doesn’t take long before they’re attacked in their sleep and their shoes stolen. They’re found by Zach who has been illegally living in the woods. He offers to help,...
In the Earth, the new film from Ben Wheatley (Kill List), begins with images all to familiar images of people in masks and hazmat suits. Here, as in real life, the world is in the grip of a pandemic. It’s against this backdrop that Martin Lowery (Joel Fry; Silent Night) arrives at a vacation lodge repurposed as a research facility. He’s there to try to find Olivia Wendle (Hayley Squires; In Fabric) a scientist who went missing in the surrounding forest.
With Alma, one of the park rangers as a guide he ventures into the woods. It doesn’t take long before they’re attacked in their sleep and their shoes stolen. They’re found by Zach who has been illegally living in the woods. He offers to help,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
There is a stellar moment in Mark Harris’ stunning new biography Mike Nichols: A Life in which the director’s early 70s oddity The Day of the Dolphin is released to dismissive and hostile reviews. Leave it to Pauline Kael to hurl the most incisive and devastating line about the film: “If Mike Nichols and [screenwriter] Buck Henry don’t have anything better to make movies about than English-speaking dolphins in assassination attempts, why don’t they stop making movies?” It was difficult not to think of that comment when watching Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth, a pandemic horror film that lands with a thud. A Deadline article published the day of Earth’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival explained that, according to Wheatley, “He simply wanted to make a movie and get [out] of the house.”
Creating a new film is not the worst way to spend some forced Covid-19 downtime.
Creating a new film is not the worst way to spend some forced Covid-19 downtime.
- 1/30/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
With the unfortunate exception of “Songbird,” which tried to wangle a Michael Bay movie out of the pandemic by turning the pandemic into a Michael Bay movie, the first wave of films written and shot during Covid have all been as confined as any of the people watching them from home. But leave it to Ben Wheatley — an irrepressible British filmmaker whose best movies have always felt like claustrophobic reactions to the psychic horrors of modern living — to zag where the likes of “Locked Down,” “Coastal Elites,” and “Malcolm & Marie” have zigged, and leverage our suffocating new status quo into an open-air horror movie that will make you never want to go outside again.
When it was first announced that Wheatley had taken it upon himself to a shoot a pandemic movie of his own last summer, the director said his response to the virus was provoked by “the...
When it was first announced that Wheatley had taken it upon himself to a shoot a pandemic movie of his own last summer, the director said his response to the virus was provoked by “the...
- 1/30/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Last year, Ben Wheatley released a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” in which his heroine suffers a trippy newlywed’s nightmare. She’s married to Armie Hammer, following him through the halls of Manderley, and the hallway carpet turns to crawling ivy, grabbing her ankles and pulling her down toward hell. This hallucination stands out in the otherwise traditional film, but it’s one of the few moments in “Rebecca” where we sense the filmmaker’s personality coming through. That freaky interlude might as well have been a trailer for Wheatley’s next project, “In the Earth,” a relatively grungy occult forest spirit chiller that culminates in the maxi version of that montage.
There is such a thing as “a Ben Wheatley movie,” and “Rebecca” was not it. Not really, even if the director of such dark-matter mind-warps as “Kill List” and “A Field in England” put his name to the project.
There is such a thing as “a Ben Wheatley movie,” and “Rebecca” was not it. Not really, even if the director of such dark-matter mind-warps as “Kill List” and “A Field in England” put his name to the project.
- 1/30/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Two of Friday’s Sundance Film Festival premieres are movies that their directors envisioned as a way to keep busy and make art during the pandemic lockdown, and they both deal with a lot of people dying. But beyond that, there’s not a whole lot of common ground between Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones’ “How It Ends” and Ben Wheatley’s “In the Earth,” which take markedly different approaches to catastrophe and to Covid-era moviemaking.
While “How It Ends” is a cheery movie about the end of the world, filmed in a socially-distanced manner on the streets of Los Angeles, “In the Earth” takes the British director Wheatley back to his roots as an indie horror director (“Kill List”). Made between his Netflix remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” and his upcoming sequel to “The Meg,” it was shot in 15 days, mostly outside, during the pandemic with a small...
While “How It Ends” is a cheery movie about the end of the world, filmed in a socially-distanced manner on the streets of Los Angeles, “In the Earth” takes the British director Wheatley back to his roots as an indie horror director (“Kill List”). Made between his Netflix remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” and his upcoming sequel to “The Meg,” it was shot in 15 days, mostly outside, during the pandemic with a small...
- 1/30/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
While I’m still feeling a bit blue that I won’t be in Park City to experience the pure joy of discovering new films in person this year, this writer is grateful that the Sundance Film Festival is still happening and is set to roll out later this week, beginning on Thursday, January 28th. The upside to all of this is that, by taking the fest virtual, Sundance is allowing so many more people from around the country to take part in this celebration of independent cinema, and that’s something I think is pretty damn great.
Each and every year, the festival planners at Sundance put together a fantastic slate of programming and it looks like their 2021 lineup will be keeping that tradition alive. Here’s a look at a dozen films that are playing as part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival that are on my proverbial radar this year.
Each and every year, the festival planners at Sundance put together a fantastic slate of programming and it looks like their 2021 lineup will be keeping that tradition alive. Here’s a look at a dozen films that are playing as part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival that are on my proverbial radar this year.
- 1/26/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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