The Wind

5/29/2019

Horror Westerns are incredibly hard to accomplish, and director Emma Tammi’s boldness and imagination makes ‘The Wind’ a spooky breath of fresh air. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-the-wind-a-paranoid-western-nightmare Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.

7/27/2019

**_Very well made and genuinely creepy socio-political allegory, although the ambiguity and pacing won't be for everyone_** > _Disbelief is not just about men disbelieving us. It is about our own disbelief in ourselves._ - Amber Tamblyn; "I'm Done With Not Being Believed"; _The New York Times_ (September 16, 2017) _The Wind_ is ostensibly a horror movie about a woman being terrorised by a demon on the American frontier. However, look a little deeper, and you'll find it may very well be a study of prairie madness. However, look even deeper, and it's really a metaphorical examination of the mindset of a less enlightened time, when women were very much second-class citizens who were expected to tend to the home and do little else. A fiercely feminist appropriation of that most mascul