Rejoice in the Lamb
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Courtney Bush, Will Carington, Jake Goicoechea
Genres: comedy, horror, mystery
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
A Brooklyn woman jogging through Prospect Park late at night spills her guts to an oracle about a missing friend who may have been lured off by a shady new acquaintance. Friendship paranoia warped through horror-comedy and vampire-adjacent mythos.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three directors, an oracle in Prospect Park, and 'bad vibes' as the official genre — that's exactly the kind of unserious-serious horror experiment Bushwick makes well. I want to see how clean a three-cook kitchen actually keeps a tone.
Three-director collective filtering Brooklyn social anxiety through oracle/vampire iconography is a lot of cooks and a lot of conceits — Whit Stillman crashing a Greek chorus is delicious if it holds. Risky but interesting.
A late-night Prospect Park jog encountering a self-proclaimed oracle to confess about a friend lured by a charismatic-creepy newcomer — three-director collective filtering Brooklyn paranoia through vampire iconography is a layered pitch with real ensemble depth.
Reviews
A fresh take on oracle/vampire tropes that cleverly unfolds as a complex portrait of friendship, envy, and bad vibes.