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.
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William Brent Bell’s “Separation” is an atrocious piece of work, a movie that fails as both a domestic drama and as a horror flick, and really feels like the kind of thing that everyone involved is going to have to discuss in therapy someday to get to the bottom of why it was even made in the first place. And it’s a viciously misogynistic film that feels like the result of a drunk guy at a bar wondering if his ex-wife is so cruel that she would haunt him from beyond the grave. Critics in the ‘20s are often accused of putting political or social agendas into films that don’t really merit such a reading, but the two main female characters in “Separation” are so poorly, cruelly defined purely in context of the male lead that it’s almost like the movie is challenging people
Directed by William Brent Bell.
Starring Rupert Friend, Madeleine Brewer, Brian Cox, Violet McGraw, Troy James, Simon Quarterman, and Mamie Gummer.
SYNOPSIS:
In a verbally explosive argument during 2019’s
Marriage Story that has been memed to death, Adam Driver lost all cool and told his wife, played by Scarlett Johansson, that he wished she would get hit by a car. Cue William Brent Bell’s
Separation (the director has been a regular on the horror scene as of late with his
The Boy series and infamous stinker
The Devil Inside, which told viewers to go to a website for the ending) where the custody battle is cut short by a hit-and-run on the mother.
Better when it s not trying to scare you.
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Rupert Friend, Brian Cox, Madeline Brewer and Mamie Gummer star in William Brent Bell s horror film about a little girl whose demonic puppets seem to come to life.
A muddled execution undercuts laudable ambitions in the latest effort from director William Brent Bell, who previously demonstrated his talent for turning low-budget horror films into major commercial hits with such movies as
The Devil Inside and
Separation, which attempts to inject scares into a
Kramer vs. Kramer-inspired scenario. But the film squanders its intriguing setup and terrific performances by devolving into familiar genre tropes. Not that it will prevent horror-starved audiences from flocking to see it on the big screen thanks to the further lifting of pandemic restrictions.
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