Reece Shearsmith in 'In the Earth'
Dead and buried.
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Ben Wheatley nurtures his genre roots with this viral isolation thriller that draws a menacing blurred line between man and nature in an alienating world gripped by a pandemic.
An ominous score by Clint Mansell mixing electronic dread with insidious melody toils in search of a more coherent horror scenario in Ben Wheatley's disorienting slog,
In the Earth. Whether it's a palate cleanser after the constricting labor of Netflix's
Rebecca remake or simply a work of creative restlessness cooked up by a resourceful director who honed his skills making more with less, this hallucinogenic fairy tale set during the third wave of a global pandemic and shot under COVID-19 guidelines becomes progressively less interesting after its intriguing start. The cluttered plot keeps surging forward while providing too few illuminating insights, instead loading up on mystical mumbo jumbo and flashes of gore.