Movie

The Wind

2018 · 88 min

A slow, suffocating plunge into frontier paranoia, where isolation and relentless wind blur madness and the supernatural.

Tagline: It never stops.
Overview: Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, bleak and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, madness, parenthood, guilt
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
parenthood
guilt
survival
Places: wilderness
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild