Petter Cilella and Vinny Curran co-star as two old friends who head for a getaway at said cabin - but what one doesn't know is that the other plans to keep them there by whatever means necessary until he breaks his friend of his drug habit. The feature debut from Spring and The Endless filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Resolution is a slow burn, surprisingly expansive existential thriller that builds a whole universe from the confines of a remote cabin. Add in a layer of Twilight Zone-esque terror, and The Vast of Night is a film you won’t soon forget, announcing its writers, director, and cast as new talents to watch. The wildly compelling screenplay is full of delightfully crackerjack dialogue that evokes screwball comedies of the 40s and 50s, while Andrew Patterson’s direction favors long takes and unique shots that lay the intrigue on thick as the story plays out entirely in real-time. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but also has a voice and style all its own. It’s Spielbergian in that it clearly draws influence from films like E.T. That premise could go wrong any number of ways, but at every turn Vast of Night pleasantly surprises. ![]() Set in 1950s New Mexico, the story basically follows a switchboard operator ( Sierra McCormick) and a radio DJ ( Jake Horowitz) investigating a strange sound coming through the radio during a big high school basketball game. The indie sci-fi film The Vast of Night is hands down one of the best films of 2020, and a wonderful surprise. I won’t lie, The Wailing is also pretty confusing on a first watch, especially to a Western viewer, but like a mirror of the film itself, investigating its meaning only seems to draw out further horrors. ![]() Director Hong-jin Na keeps the pace pounding and the surprises coming (including one of the best on-screen uses of lightning of all time) and he’s seemingly incapable of backing down from the grim or the grisly. Each crime is committed by a dazed perpetrator fallen ill with a severe rash, and when he wakes up to find his daughter in the same condition, his life rapidly spins out of control as he desperately tries to uncover the source of the scourge. The South Korean crime thriller-meets-demonic nightmare centers on Kwak Do-Wan's everyman detective Jong-Goo, who is drawn into the nasty realm of demons and spirits when his job leads him to a string of horrifying murders. It’s peeking behind a rickety curtain that was left intentionally askew and immediately wishing you never saw through the cracks because there's definitely something sinister as hell back there. Watching The Waling is a bit like catching sight of something humanity was never meant to see.
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