Antlers: Dark Creature': Guillermo del Toro sponsors an atypical horror story from a large studio that will appeal to fans of 'Until Dawn

 It is strange that in a commercial setting in which terror on the big screen tends to be cleaner, with there are hardly any examples with gore like ' Halloween Kills ' (2021), that proposals as dark and strange as ' Antlers: Dark creature ' go so unnoticed in the fandom, with a cold reception at the Sitges 2021 festival, where it was branded as conventional and topical (sic). Although it is not a perfect movie, it is far from being a generic product.

Produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Scott Cooper, the feature film adapts Nick Antosca's short story 'The Quiet Boy' into a script co-written by himself, C. Henry Chaisson and the director himself. While it does not have the surreal craziness of the ' Channel Zero ' or ' New Cherry Flavor ' series, the author's stamp of the story infiltrates everywhere, offering a tremendously sordid childhood nightmare that takes the idea of ​​real monsters and the turns into a meditation on generational traumas in deep America.

In 'Antlers: Dark Creature' Keri Russell plays Julia, a teacher who returns to the small Oregon town she grew up in to fill a position at the local elementary school, temporarily moving into the home of her brother Paul (Jesse Plemons). , who is a local police chief. Julia and Paul have a dark family history of abuse, while the city itself is a lucid compendium of everything that is happening in part of rural America after the crisis, creating a bleak scene as did 'Don't Breathe' (2018) with the abandoned suburban Detroit.

At the same time, Lucas Weaver (Jeremy T. Thomas), a young boy in Julia's class, appears to be being abused of some kind at home. Julia reproduces and acknowledges her pain as a victim and suspicion of Weaver's family, whose father (Scott Haze) and brother (Sawyer Jones) appear to have disappeared. And as Julia begins to try to help the boy, Paul begins to discover brutally dismembered bodies in the woods around the town, in such a deplorable condition that even the local coroner cannot determine the cause of death.

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The script well weaves connections between past and present, myth and reality, with more precision than meets the eye. The characters 'decisions reflect either regret or the redemption they seek, and Cooper subtly emphasizes the protagonists' vulnerability alongside the idea that those they protect are exposed and damaged, creating a sad and defeatist atmosphere that is uncommon in the game. current genre cinema , much less in the big studio. But despite the drama codes, the film is more interested in studying the environment they inhabit.

The greatest value of 'Antlers: Dark Creature' is how it manages to build a new variant of Northwest Gothic over and above the explanations of the plot. A skilled director who makes great use of space for suspense, Cooper relies on cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister and production designer Tim Grimes to turn Canadian locations into evocative paintings of desolation and broken lives surrounded by mist. , abandonment and darkness.

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The town of Cispus Falls reflects the real phenomenon of the working classes left to their own devices by the US government, filling the news with news of white supremacist groups and an opioid epidemic. 'Antlers' touches the subject better than this year's remake of ' Wrong Turn ', dealing with the consequences of the local mining industry shutdown, from the financial collapse, environmental problems, the normalized spread of hard drug use , and the extreme poverty that have started to become a part of the landscape.