She Will: So this doesn't hit theaters nationally until sometime in July I believe, but caught this IFC Midnight release over the weekend at a local international film festival (a few other IFC releases will drop at this festival next week too that I plan on checking out) and wow, this was very well done slow build creepy stuff here. This was a really unique vibe too in that it felt like a heavily feminist tone (arthouse aspects as well for sure) and focus out of it, about a woman who experienced past trauma from her career as a child actor, that PTSD of sorts hits hard and kinda gets exposed after losing her career due to a double mascectomy. In her grief, she decides to go to some sort of retreat of sorts to a secluded cabin to escape the shame of losing her career due to her situation, and things start unraveling in a weird way in the middle of the woods. The gist of things from that point is that mysterious things start happening to her in this forest since it is an area that a coven of witches were burned up in, thus the spirits are lingering and attach to this woman's grief and pain from her past to slowly morph her into a witch herself. The main actress, Alice Krige, does an effective job at all this, but holy shit the look she had really creeped me out in this, reminded me somewhat of the demented sickly underweight sister in Pet Semetary. Just incredibly ominous and bleak tone all through this. Dario Argento produced and a very effective score as well made it feel like a Dario production even more. Rupert Everett and Malcolm McDowell had decent side roles also. Go check this out when it hits this summer.
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