Tragedy sends teen Anna from Brooklyn into the humid, heavy air of a small Florida town. Her new home is with her grandmother, May, a woman who navigates the old house from memory, having been blind for decades. The isolation is immediate and palpable.
The bayou itself, with its hanging branches and thick stillness, seems to hold secrets. A sense of place is a difficult thing for a film to earn, but here, the Southern Gothic atmosphere is not just window dressing; it is an active presence.
Anna’s grief makes her an outsider, a ghost in her own new life, drifting through a community where local folklore feels less like history and more like a waiting threat. The air is thick with things unsaid, both in the family home and in the town itself.
The Rules of Retribution
The town’s threatening folklore has a name: Mr. Sandman. This...
The bayou itself, with its hanging branches and thick stillness, seems to hold secrets. A sense of place is a difficult thing for a film to earn, but here, the Southern Gothic atmosphere is not just window dressing; it is an active presence.
Anna’s grief makes her an outsider, a ghost in her own new life, drifting through a community where local folklore feels less like history and more like a waiting threat. The air is thick with things unsaid, both in the family home and in the town itself.
The Rules of Retribution
The town’s threatening folklore has a name: Mr. Sandman. This...
- 6/22/2025
- by Scott Clark
- Gazettely
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