![]() ![]() ![]() It opens ominously with an eerie dark cloud spewing out of a natural underwater structure, billowing out to engulf the camera before settling down to what seems at first like an unusual home invasion thriller. Lovecraft, John Carpenter and just the merest smidge of Barry Levinson’s under-rated The Bay (2012) into a fantastically creepy film that commendably doesn’t end up where you think it might. Brown’s small-scale apocalypse that mixes H.P. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) may be long behind us (with so many films being produced each year and with so much social media scrutiny a genuinely off-the-wall genre film feels harder than ever to make) but there are still pleasant surprises to be found, like Jeffrey A. The days of receiving jolts to the system like George A. It’s always immensely satisfying when a new talent emerges with a promising debut that appears out of nowhere and quietly impresses with its ability to rework old themes into something that feels new and inventive.
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