Der Wald steht schwarz und schweiget.
realistic: liminal, remote hotel haunted by feral old lady ghost
unrealistic: Dorfdisco in rural Austria playing techno
Reviews tagged ‘forest’ by peach__tree
2014
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My interest was piqued when i read that this was about a horror from the past, specifically an archaeological site. An aeon old virus from the ice is something that grows nearer the further the thawing of the permafrost accelerates and feels especially pertinent in a global pandemic which will change our relation to invasive microorganisms for the future to come.
I enjoyed the matter of fact and non-sensationalistic manner of the violence which blends right into the serene icy…
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2018
Enigmatic and dreamlike, immerses in surrounding waters and forests with their undercurrents of violent, forgotten and silenced histories. Ghosts finding brief moments of calm memory in sparking iridescent lights. A blurring of boundaries and the interrogation of the possibility of convergence in difference.
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1971
The folksy, pastoral facade of a small german village giving way to something far more sinister lurking underneath rustic geranium decoration, whitewashed walls, woolly sheeps fur, small talk repeating itself into oblivion. The big bad wolf down from the german Grimm Unterbewusstsein returns not so much in limp dead prey but in gleaming black rotor blades cutting the air. It returns when you do not swallow those small doses of police enforced happiness rendering you placid. Between all of this,…
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2001
Films with over 100 min. runtime always drag a bit for me, and tbh i was very tired but it wasn't as bad as it could have been for me. But then the end just completely blew me away. I had to skip back and rewatch it because...just perfection. A very calm and eerie piece that lives off its characters.
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