I hate summer, I think I have mentioned that once or twenty times here before, and August is worst of all (I mean at least my birthday is in July) -- but August does have one thing going for it, and that thing is on display today. I just posted the trailer for Slice, a new horror film, and now I've got the trailer for Hold the Dark, also a new horror film. So August? It has the promise of fall floating there in its ether, and fall is good, great, the greatest of all the seasons. Full of sweater-weather and horror movies, oh my!
Anyway Hold the Dark. Hold the Dark was directed by the great Jeremy Saulnier, whose previous movies Blue Ruin (review) and especially especially Green Room (review) I am big fans of - Hold the Dark stars Riley Keough as a woman whose child is devoured by wolves in rural Alaska; her husband (played by Alexander Skarsgard) is a soldier off at war so she hires Jeffrey Wright's character to hunt those nasty beasties; meanwhile James Badge Dale is there as the sheriff. And then Skarsgard comes back and yadda yadda things seem to go a lil' loopy.
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I read an interview with Saulnier recent;y where he said he used real wolves at all times, which sounds promising - CG still doesn't get it right - you can sense the difference every time. Anyway Saulnier has already proven himself a master at ratcheting up tension to a nigh unbearable degree - there are moments in Green Room where I'm pretty sure I went blu-faced from not breathing. This trailer promises lots of chances for that. It's giving me a Ravenous vibe, which is always, always welcome. Hold the Dark is a Netflix film and it'll drop on September 28th. And I'll be wearing a damn sweater while I watch it!
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