SXSW Film Review: Azrael

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The left behind navigate a supernatural horror

Denis Villeneuve recently caused a surprising firestorm by daring to suggest that the visual medium of cinema should rely primarily on the image, not words. It seems like E.L. Katz has taken that wisdom deeply to heart with supernatural horrorModern silent movies have been a little bit of a theme at this year’s South by Southwest, with the Zellner bros.’ cryptid family drama.

Who did this, and why? That’s all ambiguous, and deliberately so. Barrett’s script is an intentional, measured exercise in minimalism, forcing the audience to construct the world from its components: a cult; burned and bloodthirsty human-line creatures that roam the forest, blind and ravenous; a church; and something whispering through a crack in a wooden wall.

Those millenarian apocalyptic themes may be the most resonant for Barrett, who clearly draws on his own experiences in rural Missouri.may have been filmed in Estonia, but the underlying horror is that of pious residents of small towns in the Midwest having been told, in no uncertain terms, that God hates them all.

 

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