#5 - The Wind (2019)
(dir. Emma Tammi)
Set somewhere in the American West during the 19th century, this film centers around Lizzy, a pioneer woman who lives in a very remote cabin with her husband Isaac. They are surrounded by nothing but open plains and an unusually high number of graves. Lizzy struggles to cope with the isolation, but after she miscarries a son she starts to believe that there is an evil presence lurking nearby.
This starts off at a very deliberate pace, and I was anticipating it to be a slow burn horror film like The Witch, but it does pick up a bit in the second half. The story is told out of order, moving between the present and the past with almost every other scene. I found it a little confusing - at first I didn't even realize that I was being shown flashbacks, and it's used so often that it takes what is a pretty straightforward plot and makes it unnecessarily complicated.
Otherwise this was pretty good. It's always great to see horror films made by women that tell stories about women. This one isn't a masterpiece, but it's a strong debut, and I look forward to seeing what director Emma Tammi does next. There also aren't a lot of horror films set in the Old West (there's The Burrowers and, uh... Bone Tomahawk is kind of horror I guess?), so that helps this one stand out a bit. Recommended if you like slower-paced supernatural horror films.
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