Friday, August 16, 2013

On Exploder Button: The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)

There aren't all that many horror films standing in the same tradition as less on-the-nose and ambiguous contemporary literary horror. I'm not surprised, for doing this sort of thing well must be exceedingly difficult in a medium that is by nature not as easily turned towards interiority and ambiguousness as fiction is. Even worse, even if your film achieves its goal well, a lot of people will still hate it just for its insistence on things other than plot or blood.

Rodrigo Gudiño's The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh is one of these films, and it achieves its goals admirably. My column over at ExB explains how.

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