Horror Lemonade
The movie business is getting back to normal, but every now and then we get a reminder that things aren’t normal yet. We were supposed to open Everything Everywhere All at Once on Friday, but the studio needed to make adjustments to their release schedule, our date got pushed. That delay caused conflicts with other movies we already booked, so now we won’t be able to play it.
It sucks, and we’re bummed.
Thankfully there were a few good options to fill in, and the studios were accommodating to our last-minute booking scramble. So let’s take these horrible lemons and make some lemonade.
Without further ado, our actual April line-up:
X
A while ago we apologized to all our horror-loving regulars because we’d gone a couple months without a scary movie, and we expected the drought to last another month or two. Well, problem solved.
With X, director Ti West returns to his horror roots, and he’s in top form. It may look like a throwback, but it’s is anything but. X builds on the aesthetic of exploitative, old school slashers, but it has a respect for its characters that leads to something new and unique.
X plays April 8 -14.
One week only!
You Won’t Be Alone
After X, we’ll move on to a very different flavor of horror. You Won’t Be Alone merges fear and fairy tale into something hypnotic. Alternately brutal and contemplative, writer/director Goran Stolevski (in his first feature) uses a folk-horror lens to tell a skewed, brutal, and very human story.
You Won’t Be Alone plays April 15 - 20.
One week only!
The Northman
Robert Eggers is a singular filmmaker. He makes films with a devotion to time and place that goes beyond historical accuracy. His first film, The Witch, brings 250-year-old fears back to life through impeccable film craft. The Lighthouse does something similar, despite being a vastly different film.
The Northman is no different, while again being very different. Co-written by Icelandic writer Sjon, it captures the brutality and fatalism of Viking folklore, while grounding it with a fully realized and very lived-in world. It’s the movie a Viking skald would have made if they had modern film equipment (and a really good cinematographer).
The Northman run April 21 - May 5.
Outro?
You can stop reading now. I don’t have time to write an interesting footer this week.
