Thread
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Max Rosen
Genres: dark comedy, horror, satire
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
An assistant at a culture website starts growing thread from her skin and begins investigating. Workplace satire that slides sideways into paranoia and quiet body horror.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Body horror that doesn't reach for the gross-out — it reaches for the office supply closet. Casting River L. Ramirez next to John Early and Ana Fabrega tells you exactly which downtown weirdo bench this thing is sitting on.
Body horror specifically as thread emerging from a content-mill drone is a specific, tactile metaphor — Severance-via-early-Cronenberg with a downtown comedy bench is unusually well-located. Yes.
Body horror specifically rendered as thread — something you could pull on — emerging from a content-mill office drone, with River L. Ramirez and a downtown-comedy bench including John Early. That's a precise, charged image and a stacked cast.
Reviews
Rosen's film has strange and funny moments, but often veers away from comedy into the realm of dread, sickness, and body horror.