2019 · horror · music
In the Tall Grass
Directed by Vincenzo Natali1h 41m2019
After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.
Our read: In the Tall Grass (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / music, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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