Suitable Flesh
Director: Joe Lynch. With:
Heather Graham, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Davison, Johnathan Schaech.
USA 2023. 100 mins.
Starting headlong with the obligatory 80s homage, Joe Lynch’s love letter to Stuart Gordon is a decent facsimile, taking the basics from HP Lovecraft’s ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’. However, doesn’t have the goofy excess, going for an 80s erotica angle instead. And reading Lovecraft’s summary of the idea he had in a dream turns out to be scarier in implication than anything in the film. The last act livens up and you realise the film, has been treading water for a while - However, the reversal camera in the car gag is everything.
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein.
With: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause.
Germany 2023. 100 mins.
Slick with excellent underwater photography. The lobby afterwards had several saying what they would have done better in that situation, but it seemed to me it was about maybe not making the best decisions at the right time and that not everyone is heroic. The situation is all a metaphor for the sisters’ dysfunctional relationship, of course - she's stuck in the depths while hers sister clumsily tries to save her, etc - and overcoming that together to solve the situation. Drowning drama has inherent high stress levels if that’s a phobia of yours.
Directors: Nick Psinakis, Kevin Ignatius.
With: Corin Clay, Mick Thyer, Danielle Grotsky, April Clark.
USA 2023. 85 mins.
Likable enough cast, beautifully shot, charming regional work, but ultimately unconvincing.
And evidence again that local libraries are the bane of malevolent ghosts.
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