’In the Tall Grass’ is a film based on the novella of the same name written by Stephen King and Joe Hill: so, it is devoted to natural and basic phobias and tells the viewers a rather serious plot: Becka and Cal are two siblings who are searching a boy who was lost in the field of high grass. It turns their charity into a nightmare of alienation and disorientation – menaces in the grass to force them to face their horror. The film draws tension, emasculating the audience and giving a view of despair; the visuals A visual feast and a visually depressing one at that.
The direction may send the attitude for combining psychological horror with extended staking and while using non-linearity to increase the level of confusion. While there is something somewhat attractive in this approach to the audience, it is a clearly surrealistic idea. However, some aspects of the plot do this feel hazy the narrative could at time possibly overload the character progress.
Thus, such an approach to cinematographic treatment of the existential emotions like the fear that one may lose something or do not know what will happen next, being locked in a place together with good acting and scripts comprise an interesting basis on the emotional level. In any case, ‘In the Tall Grass’ seems to be the horror provoked with the shades of existential hopeless, and so, it is rightful to view it as the member of recent production. For what it is, the movie earns 4 for 5, with a caution that this is more of an atmospheric horror flick, so if you’re not into that, you will get a deep feeling of unease.
