With Color Out of Space, The Void, Annihilation, and Lovecraft Country coming out over the last several years, cosmic horror is one of the genre’s popular new trends. Popularized by H.P. Lovecraft’s writings in the early 20th century, cosmic horror works nicely for literature but remains untapped in film due to its inherent, indescribable nature. It’s a challenge many filmmakers have taken a crack at but only a few have really made work.
Writer/director Matthew Wade is the latest person to give the great, terrifying unknown a shot with his film A Black Rift Begins to Yawn, whose title comes directly from one of Lovecraft’s novellas. To Wade’s credit, his approach tackles cosmic horror differently than the previously mentioned examples; all emphasis is put on the ethereal, engaging with ideas of perception and time on purely abstract terms instead of making things literal. This...
Writer/director Matthew Wade is the latest person to give the great, terrifying unknown a shot with his film A Black Rift Begins to Yawn, whose title comes directly from one of Lovecraft’s novellas. To Wade’s credit, his approach tackles cosmic horror differently than the previously mentioned examples; all emphasis is put on the ethereal, engaging with ideas of perception and time on purely abstract terms instead of making things literal. This...
- 2/12/2021
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
Matthew Wade's sophomore film, a micro-budget cosmic horror flick called A Black Rift Begins to Yawn, will have its world premiere at Slamdance in their Breakouts section next week. The film will be available on demand from February 12th to 25th. The title of his film is a reference to H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 novella, The Shadow out of Time. Sara Lynch (Wade's wife and producing partner) and Saratops McDonald star. We are very pleased to have been asked to share this exclusive clip with you today. Once upon a time, we featured Wade's short film Plena Stellarum which played at Slamdance in 2017, among the many times he has had films play at the festival. We were very impressed and creeped out...
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- 2/5/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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