Ben Wheatley on the perils of shooting a psychedelic pandemic horror
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In The Earth: wood and guts in forest horror
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Better Tagline: There is unrest in the forest. There is trouble with the trees.
Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Mankind is suffering from a terrible pandemic (sound familiar?), which doesn t stop Martin (Joel Fry) from traveling to a remote English nature preserve to conduct his crop experiments. He s escorted to his destination by Alma (Ellora Torchia), a park ranger. As they venture deeper into the woods, it becomes apparent that stranger things than the virus are afoot. Critical Analysis: Writer/director Ben Wheatley wrote and directed
In the Earth over a 15 day stretch in autumn of last year, as COVID brought the rest of the world to a standstill. It s an impressive achievement that even accounting for the the external factors and macro themes at play nevertheless resulted in a disjointed end product.
Bob Strauss April 13, 2021Updated: April 13, 2021, 6:46 pm
Ben Wheatley’s horror thriller “In the Earth” takes place during an unspecified viral outbreak that’s put England under lockdown. Photo: Neon
British genre auteur Ben Wheatley goes back to his roots with “In the Earth.”
Though this woodland horror tale isn’t quite up to the droll, shocking standards of the director’s early successes “Kill List” and “Sightseers,” it is a welcome enough return to grungy form after his recent, glossier and more confused films, such as Netflix’s pointless “Rebecca” remake and the just plain nasty J.G. Ballard adaptation “High-Rise.”