In The Tall Grass proves a solidly spooky film, seeded with some tantalizing moments of terror. But it never grows to outright terrifying. This should be a haunting, claustrophobic nightmare, but Natali over-complicates the source material — just like his characters, our reasons for investing in what happens next get lost in the fields. This movie was freaking epic the plotwists were epic and acting was phenomenal, I loved the transitions to different people and the way the movie kept you hooked and on the edge of your seat. Once again another Stephen King book turned the movie that was amazing, the choice of actors was also perfect with Patrick Wilson and Will Buie. Overall if you are wanting a horror movie that is not super long but amazing I believe, that In The Tall Grass is the movie for you. One of the best horror movies I've seen in quite awhile. Very good acting and an incredibly gripping story that had me tense the entire second half. Highly recommend. The strong atmospherics and performances aren’t quite enough to keep In the Tall Grass from feeling like, well, wandering through a bunch of tall grass. Despite the handsome Craig Wrobleski cinematography, and despite a typically fine performance by Patrick Wilson as the lost kid’s dad — slowly going mad in the bush — “In the Tall Grass” runs too long and repeats itself too much to be as gripping as its source material. In the Tall Grass is just a few minutes old before the emptiness beneath its Escherisms creeps up into the soil, and the movie only grows more enervating with each new wrinkle Natali introduces. Fittingly, for a story about wandering around in a field, it winds up going nowhere. Vincenzo Natali’s film divests itself of stakes in the name of total meaninglessness. A good psychological horror movie with an engaging plot. It leaves room for our own interpretations and theory, like most of King's books. Based on the Stephen King/Joe Hill novella of the same name, In the Tall Grass definitely has the King tone. It isn’t the best adaptation of a King story, nowhere near it, but it has moments of creepiness and genuine scares. The concept is genius, it has so many good and disturbing ideas that it elevates the entire film. The main flaw of the film is that it feels somewhat stretched, like a lot of King short story adaptations. The acting, other than that of Patrick Wilson is also subpar. But, I would still recommend it for any Stephen King fans, or anyone who’s looking for a good scare while being able to overlook some pacing issues. I thought In the Tall Grass was an ok movie. it was really interesting and it gets more and more interesting Boring and messy. "In the Tall Grass" certainly has an interesting concept, but it's drowning in a mess of cliches, idiotic characters, and bad CGI. Upon finishing this film I was shocked to discover that it's only 90 minutes, because it felt as though it was over 2 hours. Many of the characters in this film make rash, moronic decisions that lead to convoluted conflicts. All the while the movie can't even be bothered to be well shot or even particularly scary. A waste of time to be certain. - Best Performance: Patrick Wilson While at first I thought it will be nice idea for a scary movie with some weird twists and mindf*** type movie, it was just a bit too boring and dumb while watching and I didnt really get it's idea I guess. Which brings us to a far less debate-worthy question, also raised in the film: “Can rocks be scary?” The answer reveals itself immediately after said rock appears (spoiler: it’s no). But don’t tell that to Cube director Vincenzo Natali, who has long been fixated on bringing the short story, co-authored by Stephen King and son Joe Hill, to the screen. His film treats a Kansas field as if it were a haunted house, an ambitious gambit that in practice is easier to politely admire than it is to enthusiastically celebrate. The set-up, which loosely recalls Jeepers Creepers, sees a brother and sister on a sweltering car journey who find themselves drawn into an attempted rescue in the middle of nowhere. While in Jeepers Creepers the siblings ventured into a pit of corpses only to become targeted by an evil organ-consuming monster, this time they’re dragged into a field, concerned by the cries of a child lost in the tall grass before finding themselves stuck in a never-ending maze of blades. Once they’re in, it’s seemingly impossible to get out, and their bad day switches to worse when they realise they’re stuck in there with … a big rock. Natali does manage some successfully squirmy tension in the first act, immersing us in the pair’s increasingly frustrating Blair Witch-style panic as they struggle to make logical sense of an illogical scenario. He finds ways of visualising their predicament that avoid repetition, the camera swirling in and around the grass, teasing at a freedom the characters aren’t allowed. But as the situation worsens, our interest weakens. The convoluted plot that’s slowly revealed transforms an eerie campfire tale into an overstuffed head-scratcher with clunky dialogue like “You can’t run from redemption!” as an expanding set of characters grapple with the mounting silliness around them. The cast is populated by unknowns, save for a scenery-chewing Patrick Wilson as a father looking for his son, and the characters are equally anonymous, Natali’s script never truly investing us in the brother-sister dynamic. While some of the nastier lurches in the third act will appease genre fans, the guff that surrounds them will probably confuse and ultimately alienate them, the film’s moving parts never really moving in unison. “This is never gonna stop!” a character shouts near the end but mercifully it eventually does, settling in for a life down among the weeds next to Netflix’s many other equally forgettable horror misfires. |
