Written by Nick Amadeus and Josh Braun
Directed by William Brent Bell
Separation is confounding. A puzzling pastiche of better horror movies,
Separation has the unenviable task of being the first wide-release genre feature available in most markets after theaters shuttered this time last year. A few features found their way to the multiplex in the intermittent period, but those– such as last October’s criminally underrated
Come Play– were isolated to those sequestered parts of the country where theaters were (negligibly) open for business.
Separation, then, is the year’s true inaugural horror outing and borrowing its cues from the year that preceded its release, few could have predicted just how preposterous and unbelievably wild it would be.