Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
George MacKay plays a boy who thinks he is a wolf and becomes committed to a cruel mental institution.
Honestly I was quite looking forward to this film, this was furthered by the trailers that made me feel this would be a very different film to the one we got. The one we got was simply depressing. The performances were good I suppose, though people pretending to be animals or in this case people who think they are animals is hardly the height of acting.
The film feels very much like art house horror, not too interested in scaring us or even giving us something to think about rather instead focusing on being pretentious and trying to deliver on a vague message which only the director really understands. It tries to subvert at the expense of any kind of logic.
Furthermore I would describe the film as quite hard to watch, it is about an hour and a half of watching disabled people being abused, I suppose that is the horror.
Overall, this film is depressing and pretentious in equal measure.
Pros.
MacKay
Lily-Rose Depp
Cons.
It is depressing
Paddy Considine has been better
It is pretentious
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