Hooptober 8.0 – The Field Guide to Evil (2018)
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2021
The anthology is a tried and true format for horror, allowing filmmakers to explore a theme or feeling without the burden of having to carry it out to feature length. The short allows for a broader range of styles, and in The Field Guide to Evil you can see the opportunity to play in the format leading down interesting avenues as a global array of filmmakers look at different folktales and folklore to explore some more modern issues. When it works, it works well, and when it doesn’t…well, there are still some interesting visual to be had.
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