WRATH
2020 · 31m · USA
Directed by Meg Case, Brad Porter
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
A woman in mandatory quarantine watches her sanity, her devices, and her power grid all start glitching at the same time, while her virtual therapist tries to talk her down. A pandemic horror film made inside the pandemic.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Most pandemic art is a souvenir; this one's a diagnosis. Half hour of paranoia rendered with screen-glitch immediacy and no exit door — it earns the all-caps title.
Case and Porter shot a pandemic horror under actual lockdown with a skeleton crew — Host's documentary urgency without the screenshare gimmick, Cam's interface dread. The conditions are part of the text.
Shot under actual lockdown with skeleton crew, mid-collapse, in real time — Meg Case and Brad Porter making a pandemic horror film that became real-time as it shot is a legitimate document, though 31 minutes is a lift.
Reviews
In any other year would fall firmly in the sci-fi horror realm; in 2020, it feels like reliving the experience we all went through.