Well, America has elected Donald Trump for a second time, and it seems the country as a whole is shifting much further to the right. As with the first Trump administration in 2016, we are likely to see a wave of sociopolitical filmmaking, from the cringe and the crazy to modern masterpieces. The horror genre has always been the most successful genre to appropriate allegorical commentary without sacrificing entertainment value, and one of the greatest horror directors of our time is ready to get political. Mike Flanagan, in his recent MovieWeb interview about his first novella, Rare, Fine, and Limited, expressed a strong desire to move from his more personal filmmaking to something more political, at least for now.
"Yes, I do. I wish today that I had done more of that sooner, not that I imagine it would have made a difference I don't. But I think one of the...
"Yes, I do. I wish today that I had done more of that sooner, not that I imagine it would have made a difference I don't. But I think one of the...
- 11/10/2024
- by Matt Mahler
- MovieWeb
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