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Ben Wheatley on Why Pandemic-Shot Horror Film 'In the Earth' Was His "Rock to Hold On To" During Lockdown

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Trust Ben Wheatley to devote a fair chunk of lockdown to trying to creep audiences out. The cult British filmmaker —who made a name for himself with indie genre titles such as Kill List and Sightseers, moved into bigger budget action with Free Fire and High Rise and recently went in a totally different direction with Netflix’s period adaptation of Rebecca —used the pandemic to go back to his roots.

In the Earth, which Neon recently released in theaters after the film bowed at Sundance, is a trippy folk horror film set — funnily enough — in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

The increasingly disturbing story follows a scientist (Joel Fry) and park scout (Ellora Torchia) who venture deep into a forest, coming up against the wildness of both man.

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