The Field

My streaming service classified this within the Horror genre. IMBD has it as Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Drama- which is correct. No horror. In short, I really enjoyed it, but it's full of dropped story lines, stiff acting, and lack of explanation. The end is a good 'wrap up" in some weys but doesn't go far enough. .A 30-somehting couple have just escaped from Chicago rat race to buy a 1000 acre farm with the requistte farmhouse charm and large barn, near a picturesque town. The don't plan to farm, just enjoy the nature, seclusion and warm-country atmosphere. The husband is a budding photographer and immediately begins his snapping pictures. Incljuding one of his nearest neighbor who had ambled to his house. When the owner of the town's only gallery sees the neighbor in the photo, he becomes hostile and kicks the husband out. We can see that the owner jumped to an incorrect conclusion. Soon the whole town knows about this city couple who's moved in and, in their view, causing upneset. Later his photographs in the field in front of his house included some strange things including people that husband could see. Meanwhile the wife is rummaging through the detritus left by the prior occupant. She finds photos and objects that suggest the former occupants were into something occult or evil. This coupled with the odd photographs and townsfolk's hostility, leads the wife to fear the farm is haunted and leading to marital friction. Meanwhile the Sherriff is hassling them relentlessly. And the husband becomes increasingly obssessed with discovering the rationale for the oddities.. Without providing spoiler, the freakiness is dealt with-kind of. The film is beautifully shot, the audience feels the positive experience of the couple starting out their new rural life.

The script isn't great, and/or the actors don't seem to be authentically embracing it. Also, when the husband encounter's the townsfolks misunderstandings about their purpose there, he just sort of walks away. He doesn't, in any meaningful way, disabuse them of their negative assumptions. The hostility and mistrust leads to increasing the and sherriff's paranoia. It's just not realistic. There are several threads/ideas in the film that are just left hanging with no resolution. Even the main mystery is never really explained. If this was 1950s or 1960's Sci-Fi film, the couple would have found a scientist who would provide some explanation. But this film lacks the ubiquitous scientist, Many scenes are "one-off" scenes with no connection to the core plot. .I think this is the film's greatest shortcoming. There aren't evern any theories that the audience could work with to wrap it up. There's also some scenes that either never added to the plot, or did, but a previous scene is now deleted/edited out. For example, there's a "inn-town" scene of an exchange between the husband and clerk: The conversation they engage in is intentionally weird, but it seems to be a follow-up on a previous conversation that they had had. Except we've never seen the first encounter (as far as I can recall). The banter between the clerk and husband is makes no sense, and doesn't add to the film an any way. If you can live with plot holes, misdirection, and not the best acting, this is worth seeing. It's fun, has some satisfying righteous and positive moments.

This is one of those weird movies that fits in-between the usual ghost/spirit/supernatural films. I guess you have to be in the right mood to even watch it, because I found myself getting frustrated at certain points. By the end, though, I just enjoyed the ride.

A Chicago couple buys a farm in a small town to get away from the chef job that was taking up too much of the husband's time. It so happens to have a weird field out back that, thanks to the husband's love of photography, they discover harbors a strange secret. One that the town seems to know but aren't terribly forthcoming about. A strange woman lives at the edge of their property and wanders around at all times, seemingly drawn to the same field. The sheriff, in particular, is very protective of her. We get a few hints that people may have disappeared in the field, or some odd sacrifice-y things may have occurred in the past, but, thanks to the photography of the husband, it's possible those people are not quite gone.

Despite nothing ever being really clear, I would stress that I found this to be a great movie, with great acting by some great supporting talent - Veronica Cartwright, Barry Bostwick and Mark Metcalf. It even has a nice, happy ending. Or does it?

This rubbish tries to be mystical, ghostly, enigmatic, scary (very feebly) - but nothing makes sense in it even by its own logic (if there is one). It is full of stuff without any sense or context. You watch and wait an hour in the hope of getting a clue to what the motivations of the characters might be. The characters have no baclground built up for you to even guess what may motivate them.

Don't waste your time of this cr*p. I waited to the end in the hope that there would be some explanation or solution. But big nothing. It's amazing that there were people willing to waste money on making this idiotic film. Awful.

My wife and I saw this movie for our date night. I didn't really know what to expect, but it was fantastic. There were so many small details and quick moments that made it creepy and made us question what was happening. We went out for dinner afterwards and had a great time discussing the film. We are definitely going to watch it again to watch for more of the subtle elements. Great acting. Highly recommend.

I went into this completely blind and I loved it! First, it is low budget, so there's the typical issues with that. And yes, there are some plot holes, but the story centers on a mystery so it's forgivable that not every single thing is explained.

A couple moves to a rural farm. The photographer husband begins capturing ghostly figures in his pictures. And as the wife cleans out the house she discovers evidence of a pagan cult. The elderly neighbor lady mysteriously disappeared then reappeared decades before, but was it actually HER that came back? Is the field behind their house a spiritual vortex? Or a wormhole in space-time? Was the cult worshipping the powers of the field? Or does the cult exist in a parallel universe?

I would classify this film as sci-fi much more than horror or thriller. It's not perfect, but it's very interesting. And I'm this modern film age of reboots, remakes, and tired tropes it was really refreshing to find an actual new, unique idea for a plot.