Fantasia ’18 Review: A long, slow trip around the world with “THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL”
There just isn’t enough variety to support a nearly two-hour running time across eight different shorts.
There just isn’t enough variety to support a nearly two-hour running time across eight different shorts.
Writer/director Tilman Singer’s unique mood piece is confounding and engrossing in equal measure.
Writer/director Justin McConnell takes a thoughtful approach to the material that still allows for a number of scary and gruesome highlights.
Once the horror truly takes hold, it doesn’t do so in the expected ways… The places it does eventually go are graphic and nasty and seriously disturbing.
The titillation remains between the people on screen, as the thrills the movie seeks to elicit from the audience are of a deeper, personal variety.