It melds the horror and
documentary genres together to talk about a weird and haunting topic.
Not exact matches
But this neat little horror is also its own thing: Fiala and Franz have worked
together once before on
documentary «Kern» and Franz has co-written those aforementioned Seidl titles and more (they are married), but «Goodnight Mommy» shows the directors both embracing
genre and going further with it than you might at first believe.
A film that feels like it is in freefall, Ben Safdie (director, co-star) and Josh Safdie (director, co-writer, co-editor) jangle
documentary - style realism
together with instinctive
genre film expressionism.
While you could compare The Lazarus Effect to at least a dozen raising the dead and you'll be sorry films, director David Gelb's 2011
documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi has me intrigued as to what this talented young filmmaker has to offer the horror
genre, and exactly how he plans to weave all of these different inspirations
together in his film.