Dementia Seed: James Concocts Brooding Debut of Intergenerational Horror
A growing influx of low-fi genre films, many directed by women, have steadily redefined broad categorizations of horror by returning to base fears and motifs for what should more aptly be labeled ‘cinema of dread.’ A stellar example of this type of slow-burn foreboding, which prizes characterization and metaphorical narrative subtexts, is the directorial debut from Australia’s Natalie Erika James, Relic.
In league with recent items by Jennifer Kent and Ari Aster, James, like Rose Glass and Romola Garai, has concocted an art-house mood piece which recalls the 1940s era of Val-Lewton films, particularly those B-pictures directed by Jacques Tourneur, like Cat People (1942) or The Leopard Man (1943), which were predicated on horrific flights of fancy but depended upon imbalance and unease through the power of suggestion and the playful teasing of troubling imagery.…...
A growing influx of low-fi genre films, many directed by women, have steadily redefined broad categorizations of horror by returning to base fears and motifs for what should more aptly be labeled ‘cinema of dread.’ A stellar example of this type of slow-burn foreboding, which prizes characterization and metaphorical narrative subtexts, is the directorial debut from Australia’s Natalie Erika James, Relic.
In league with recent items by Jennifer Kent and Ari Aster, James, like Rose Glass and Romola Garai, has concocted an art-house mood piece which recalls the 1940s era of Val-Lewton films, particularly those B-pictures directed by Jacques Tourneur, like Cat People (1942) or The Leopard Man (1943), which were predicated on horrific flights of fancy but depended upon imbalance and unease through the power of suggestion and the playful teasing of troubling imagery.…...
- 7/6/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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