Written by Karrie Crouse
Directed by Karrie Crouse and Will Joines
Starring Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford and Ebon Moss-Bachrach
USA, 2024
This is the story of the people the stars of GRAPES OF WRATH left behind – set in 1930s Oklahoma, as the dust bowl landscape is as depressed as the economy, Sarah Paulson plays a mother of two who was once a mother of three, struggling to breathe in a world full of dust and live off of a cow who won’t give milk and is rapidly running out of hay to eat.
Paulson’s husband has gone on ahead and promises to send back for his family as soon as he can. Meanwhle, the apocalypse seems as if it is ever encroaching on the small community stranded in this wasteland.
Against this backdrop, it becomes unclear if a supernatural element is coming to visit, if it’s all the doing of a mysterious stranger who seems to have healing powers (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) or if it’s all in Paulson’s mind.
This sounds like the set up for a thriller that will keep you guessing. Unfortunately, it is so slow that it forgets to be suspenseful. The setting is a unique one for a horror film, and is well realized through photography and special effects, but the story just isn’t quite there yet.
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