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tonight's feature: Antlers (2021) on HBOmax
(SPOILERS?): Well, for starters I think the name Antlers isn't doing this movie any favors. They should have gone with something catchier, maybe curse related, like Curse of the Wendigo or Soul Stealing Meth Creature from the Empty Mine. But overall I liked this movie. It wasn't terrifying but it wasn't dumb like a lot of horror can get thanks to a decent script and famed producer Guillermo del Toro. Another legit spooky tale for the Halloween season.
Lucas is a young boy from Buttcrack, Oregon, where there's only one sheriff and one deputy, but lots of economically challenged families, trauma and abuse. His school teacher Julia (played by Keri Russell) notices Lucas struggling in school and she reaches out. She finds out his mother died and he lives with his drug addicted dad and homeschooled little brother. But that's not all. His dad is slowly turning into a ferocious mythical woodland beast. Lucas is bringing his dad and little brother rotten animal corpses and keeping them locked up in the attic. Eventually the transformation is complete and the mutilated bodies start piling up when dad escapes. Everything culminates in the big final fight scene which felt a little tiny bit phoned-in, if I'm being honest.
Antlers was way better than it should have been, but still somehow not great enough to break through the horror flick morass. If you like your movies dark and spooky and set near some dense forests with tragically depressed characters all harboring terrible secrets, this film might be for you. 7 piles of animal poo in your school book bag out of 10.
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