You Won't Be Alone

This is about as far from folk horror as Michal David is from a Grammy. A wonderfully grotesque sequence of scenes where limbs are ripped off during sex for no reason and where the witch looks like an effigy of Hellraiser. I suffered, but I had fun at the same time. Noomi Rapace found her new low, while I found my biggest tragicomic bizarro of the festival so far, and that's no small feat. I had to write some of the lines down though, there was just no other way! "When you are with women in the room, your mouth, it should never stop opening. When you are with women... you are a looking-glass. To the man, you are water." #muck [5%] [KVIFF 2022], P.S.: My first hashtag when writing a review on FilmBooster :) (02.07.2022)

This period folk-horror film is my biggest viewing ordeal so far this year, the last time I suffered like this was with I'm I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Critics may shit themselves with excitement over this film, but I don't see any wonder or art in it. The film is set in the in a small village in Macedonia, in the 19th century, where a little girl is kidnapped and turned into a witch when she unluckily kills a local of the village she takes his form. So we have another shape-shifter drama (the only horror element the viewer experiences while watching). If you're watching the film for Noomi Rapace, she's there for about 20 minutes tops, so a clear clickbait. The director goes for a very experimental style full of metaphors, existence, meditation, definitely not what I would look for, not only in horror movies but movies in general. Who fuckin’ cares. I didn't find it atmospheric or dark, there’s gore in only two short scenes, nothing really happens for two hours, there’s no intense climax, just a bunch of uninteresting dialogue about what it's like to be human – it makes me want to throw up just writing about it. A parade of everything I hate, loathe and despise in movies. The film is not for mainstream audiences, but neither is it for regular horror fans, just for fans of slow burn arthouse films who will subtly jerk off to it and then philosophize with their peers for two hours about how beautiful, human and thought-provoking it was. One star for the relative amount of nudity and sex, which was the only thing interesting and watchable. If you are into Kaufman, Malick, von Trier, you will be interested. Enjoy. Story 2/5. Action 0/5, Humor 0/5, Violence 1/5, Fun 1/5 Music 2/5, Visuals 3/5, Atmosphere 2/5, Suspense 1/5, Emotion 1/5, Actors 3/5. 2/10. (21.04.2022)