The Wandering Image

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Viewing Journal: 4/15/2026

152) A GREAT AWAKENING

(2026 dir. Joshua Enck) Date Seen: April 15 2026

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Viewing Journal: 4/14/2026

151) HUNTING

MATTHEW NICHOLS

(2026 dir. Markian Tarasiuk) Date Seen: April 14 2026

only jotted down 2 positive notes during screening:

Filmmakers did a decent job of synthesizing the look and sound of true-crime slop
movie's nicely edited. (during the climax there's neat use of cross-cutting to match location footage from the modern era & the 2001 8mm DV)

And that's all i got.

Too much of a slow trudge through the same old found footage tropes. & Vancouver Island is full of Sasquatch. My man couldn't get a cameo?

Monday, April 13, 2026

Viewing Journal: 4/13/2026

150) FACES OF DEATH

(2026 dir. Daniel Goldhaber) Date Seen: April 13 2026

Sunday, April 12, 2026

Viewing Journal: 4/12/2026

149)

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND

(2019 dir. Lee Cronin) Date Seen: April 12 2026

Very well acted & made with slick precision. + In a narrative sense - Very much picks up where Corin Hardy's THE HALLOW left off (Not to mention many other "Swapped with an Evil Double" thrillers). So I can't articulate why exactly so much of HOLE IN THE GROUND just rubbed me as a lesser-BABADOOK (2014).. Also, I personally felt the kid was never conceptually quite scary enough when things began to get real