Oh Dear Lord What is Wrong with Your Face?
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Asreen Zangana
Genres: experimental, horror
A young adult sheds their skin and must navigate the resulting familial rejection, with the family dynamic rendered through body horror, Super 8 black-and-white, and analog techniques.
Picked by Felix
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Kid molts. Family loses it. The Priest is a credited character. Super 8 body horror as the world's most uncomfortable family dinner — exactly the kind of literalism I sign up for.
Super 8 black-and-white body-horror as coming-of-age — Asreen Zangana's medium choice doubles as thematic argument. That kind of marriage is rare and worth honoring.
Super 8 black-and-white body horror with a coming-of-age metaphor literalized as molting skin and a priest summoned to the dinner table — the format is doing real work here and the family-as-horror-tableau is shot in the right grain for it.