Tucked deep into Don DeLillo’s Underworld is an exchange between the novel’s protagonist, Nick Shay, and one of his teachers, a Jesuit priest. It concerns language. The priest, to make a point about the boy’s abysmally poor vocabulary, taunts him to name the parts that make up his shoe. Aglet, grommet, vamp, quarter; Nick has never heard of them, but instead of shrugging it off, he turns the lecture into a wake-up call. He runs back to his dorm wanting to look up words, memorize them, spell them, learn them––for this, DeLillo quips in one of his most fulminating sentences, “is the only way in the world you can escape the things that made you.” Time and again during Nele Wohlatz’s Sleep with Your Eyes Open, I found myself going back to that line. Language serves in Wohlatz’s cinema the same function it plays...
- 2/19/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The premise of writer/director Jason Yu’s feature debut Sleep is great. Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) are expecting parents living in an apartment with paper thin walls and contending with a lot of stress. Their downstairs neighbour complains about the barking of their dog Pepper, Soo-jin is still working in an office despite her rapidly approaching due date, and Hyung is growing disillusioned with his acting career.
It’s hardly surprising, then, when Soo-jin wakes one night to find her husband sitting stiffly at the edge of the bed, experiencing an odd bout of sleep talking. “Someone’s inside” he ominously declares before comedically falling back to sleep, leaving his worried wife apprehensive and paranoid. She searches the house and finds nothing, but her husband’s words hang heavy over the drama to come.
What starts as an amusing (presumably stress-related) incident quickly turns horrifying. Hyun-su’s sleepwalking becomes more aggressive,...
It’s hardly surprising, then, when Soo-jin wakes one night to find her husband sitting stiffly at the edge of the bed, experiencing an odd bout of sleep talking. “Someone’s inside” he ominously declares before comedically falling back to sleep, leaving his worried wife apprehensive and paranoid. She searches the house and finds nothing, but her husband’s words hang heavy over the drama to come.
What starts as an amusing (presumably stress-related) incident quickly turns horrifying. Hyun-su’s sleepwalking becomes more aggressive,...
- 9/16/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and the brand new official trailer has arrived this morning.
The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix recently announced that “Usher” will premiere on October 12, 2023.
Watch the trailer for “The Fall of the House of Usher” below.
“In this wicked 8-episode limited series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.”
The ensemble cast will include Carla Gugino (Gerald’s Game, “The Haunting of Hill House”), Mary McDonnell (Scream 4), Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep), and Mark Hamill.
The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix recently announced that “Usher” will premiere on October 12, 2023.
Watch the trailer for “The Fall of the House of Usher” below.
“In this wicked 8-episode limited series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.”
The ensemble cast will include Carla Gugino (Gerald’s Game, “The Haunting of Hill House”), Mary McDonnell (Scream 4), Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep), and Mark Hamill.
- 9/12/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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- 6/30/2023
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
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