| Horror | 11 March 2018 (USA)
short 11’40”
German segment starring: Thomas Schubert, Lili Epply
Timpson Films
word premiere: SXSW 2018
ANTHOLOGY FILMMAKERS
Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala – Austria (Goodnight Mommy)
Peter Strickland – Hungary (Duke of Burgundy)
Agnieszka Smoczynska – Poland (The Lure)
Katrin Gebbe – Germany (Nothing Bad Can Happen)
Can Everol – Turkey (Baskin)
Yannis Veslemes – Greece (Norway)
Calvin Reeder – USA (The Rambler)
Ashim Ahluwalia – India (Miss Lovely)
Most horror anthologies benefit from having some kind of unifying theme tying their stories together, and The Field Guide to Evil can boast an attractive central conceit: It’s a set of eight tales that are all grafted together from folklore and the campfire warnings of eras past, in locations all around the globe. It makes for a haltingly effective assembly of pastoral folk nightmares, unfortunately undone to some extent by its inconsistency. Still, there are properly unnerving sights here, as well as some beautifully cinematic ones.
