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Jeremy Saulnier's 'Hold the Dark': A surreal Alaskan nightmare [TIFF]

September 16, 2018 Jordan Ruimy

If you haven't seen Jeremy Saulnier's films then you're missing out. He's one of the very best up and coming American directors. 2014's "Blue Ruin" is a crime-thriller masterpiece and 2016's "Green Room" was such a dark and nasty neo-Nazi revenge thriller that it felt like an avant-garde horror movie.

Saulnier's latest venture into the dark abyss, "Hold the Dark," has him teaming up with Netflix. It follows a wolf expert that travels to an Alaskan village to investigate the disappearances of three children, who may or may not have been killed by wolves. The retired naturalist and wolf expert, Russell Cole, is played Jeffrey Wright as he journeys to the very edge of civilization to find answers. Medora Slone (Riley Keough), a young mother whose son was one of three children killed by a pack of wolves, has called for his help. However, the story has much more than meets the eye and "Hold the Dark," a nastily-rendered genre hybrid from Saulnier, has surprises that shock at every turn.

Saulnier continues his knack for visceral violence, you feel every gunshot wound, every stabbing of the knife, every punch, with the director inserting a kind of magical-surrealism that compliments the world being created, from a story adapted by longtime collaborator Macon Blair from a novel by William Giraldi. [B+]

"Hold the Dark" will have its Netflix premiere on September 28th.

In REVIEWS Tags Hold the Dark, Jeremy Saulnier, Directors, TIFF 2018
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