A boy’s cry for help lures a pregnant woman and her brother into an endless field of tall grass where an ancient force dwells among its blades.
You know it’s a Stephen King novella when there is an endless field in the middle of nowhere and mazes – Children of the Corn (1984) and The Shining (1980), respectively. If I had to pitch it to someone, it would be Coherence (2103) meets Triangle (2009). It is neither, though. Coherence is written in such a way as to just blow your mind away after insinuating that a comet’s passing will cause… anomalies. Triangle, however, is meticulously written, providing the right amount of explanation one should read between the lines. In the Tall Grass provides insufficient information about the element causing this horror, the reason, or the way it does it. The directing and editing deserve the applause here for maintaining the suspense of a film that 90% of it takes place… in tall grass. It definitely deserves a watch. Patrick Wilson is scary as hell, and Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, and Harrison Sloan Gilbertson deliver brilliant performances.
If you are a Stephen King fan, this is definitely your year. It marks the third of four films adapted this year, three of which are behind the other: Pet Sematary (April), It: Chapter 2 (September), In The Tall Grass (October), and Dr. Sleep (November).
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