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Resolution
Why this pick
Its isolated rural setting, damaged friendship, and escalating sense that something inexplicable surrounds the characters closely echo Pod’s intimate, conspiracy-tinged dread.
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MOVIE2015 1h 16m USA
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Why this pick
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The Alchemist Cookbook
Why this pick
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The Interior
Why this pick
A spare, psychologically fraught wilderness horror film whose remote setting and ambiguity create a similarly intimate, disquieting slow-burn experience.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After receiving a warning not to come to their family lake house in Maine, siblings Lyla and Ed stage an intervention for their brother, Martin, a dishonorably discharged veteran who believes the military has experimented on him. When they arrive, they find that he has descended into apparent paranoid psychosis and claims to have trapped a monster in the basement. Martin explains that he found a pod while hunting in the woods and believes it to be part of a government conspiracy to create artificial, inanimate assassins. Martin subsequently pulled several of his teeth to find what he believes is a tracking device. However, since he destroyed it, he can not prove it to his siblings. When Ed demands to see what is in the basement, Martin refuses to let him and reveals infected scratches across his torso, which he says were made by the trapped creature.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Larry Fessenden
Smith
Dean Cates
Ed
Lauren Ashley Carter
Lyla