Just caught up with this on home video.
Not only a truly excellent horror movie with some deeply disturbing, almost Lovecraftian sequences, it's also just about the only American-made movie that managed to capture a real sense of what the seventeenth century looked and sounded and felt like.
The landscape, the deep sense of isolation, the ever-looming specter of starvation and loneliness and fear before a cruel and arbitrary God permeate every frame of this amazing film.
Beautifully shot, great performances by actors unknown, at least, to me.
This was the writer-director, (Robert Eggers', first feature.
NMS
Not only a truly excellent horror movie with some deeply disturbing, almost Lovecraftian sequences, it's also just about the only American-made movie that managed to capture a real sense of what the seventeenth century looked and sounded and felt like.
The landscape, the deep sense of isolation, the ever-looming specter of starvation and loneliness and fear before a cruel and arbitrary God permeate every frame of this amazing film.
Beautifully shot, great performances by actors unknown, at least, to me.
This was the writer-director, (Robert Eggers', first feature.
NMS
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