remake of rebecca. they tell me his story. these are his memories. can you feel him now? in the earth? no, i don t know what you mean. i think you do. written during the first months of lockdown and shot last summer, in the earth plays out in a world blighted by a contagious pandemic. joel fry, currently co starring in the disney hit cruella, is martin who teams up with ellora torchia s park scout alma to venture deep into the woods in search of hayley squires scientist, dr wendle. but something is watching them, whether it s reece shearsmith s smilingly sinister zach of the mythical woodland spirit of parnag fegg. you must be sleepy. as with all of wheatley s best works, in the earth combines humour and horror in terrifically bamboozling fashion. believe me, there are sequences in here that will leave you squirming, laughing and wincing all at the same time.
but something is watching them, whether it s reece shearsmith s smilingly sinister zach of the mythical woodland spirit of parnag fegg. you must be sleepy. as with all of wheatley s best works, in the earth combines humour and horror in terrifically bamboozling fashion. believe me, there are sequences in here that will leave you squirming, laughing and wincing all at the same time. elsewhere, this habitually mischievous writer director builds upon the trippy monochrome experiments of a field in england to conjure immersively colourful explosions of sight and sound reminiscent of the glorious visionary excesses of ken russell s altered states. part pantheistic eco thriller, part absurdist pagan nightmare, in the earth is a film which demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible, preferably with the sound turned up to ii to engulf the audience in its deliciously dark spell. it s in cinemas now. do not miss it.
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