2021 · horror · fantasy · supernatural
The Old Ways
Directed by Christopher Alender1h 30m2021
Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.
Our read: The Old Ways (2021) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · fantasy · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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