By Robert Scucci
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Most horror films take place in the dead of the night, where masked murderers, ghouls, demons or other supernatural entities are free to terrorize their subjects by hiding in the dark and by opting for the murder when the opportunity arises. 2018 The farm Takes a different approach which is first disarmed, but becomes more and more disturbing because the whole film takes place during regular office hours in a sprawling factory farm where humans are slaughtered like livestock and soil in the meat.

I had a recurring thought all the time I looked The farmAnd I always think about it: a few cities from the factory farm where countless human beings are inseminated, treated, killed and served, people probably do races, forcing tax declarations to the bank, or take their children At school, completely ignoring the fact that something so horrible happens or near their community.

You must build muscle through the first act

I admit that The farm Take a little time to start, and during his first act, I really did not develop a link with its protagonists, Nora (Nora Yessayan) and Alec (Alec Gaylord). Lost during their journey through a rural area, Nora constantly harassments Alec, unrefined, and the stubborn defensive of Alec does them both like obviously unimportable people who make you ask you why they are even a couple first place. It is when they are finally removed and separated The farm Second act that things really do cook (literally and figuratively).

Boarded like your typical film on a couple who get lost and stays at night in a random cabin to sleep, The farm Quickly pivot his fear inducing the second and third acts when Nora and Alec wake up in cages in a massive factory farm led by a pile of cannibals wearing animal masks that treat humans as animals ready for slaughter .

Help does not come

Similar to 2006 Texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning,, The farm The configuration and the premise have informed the spectator that the help probably does not come.

In the case of Massacre of chainsaw in Texas Restarting of prequel, you know that no one will come out alive because it goes well before Leatherface and his family are apprehended, so he would not make sense for anyone who escapes and find the help when you consider the chronology Events of all the franchise.

The farm Takes a different approach but generates the same feeling of dread because the compound where Nora and Alec are retained captive are absolutely massive, covering what seems to be several hundred acres. Although there is a persistent hope that Nora and Alec can find the keys to a tractor, or find weapons on the spot to defend themselves while drawing a daring escape, you enter into The farm Knowing that they will have a good amount of difficulty finding the right way to return to civilization. But at the same time, The farm is disarming in a way that Texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning is not because its daytime setting gives you a false feeling of security as a spectator.

At least in my mind, most of the horrible events that take place The farm caught me off guard because I was conditioned to think that bad things do not happen in horror films before twilight.

The farm Do not completely stick landing because it has an environmental message which seems simultaneously as a line through and a reflection afterwards. Most slaughter sequences are shocked to look at because ordinary people are treated with a level of brutality considered acceptable when animals are made in real and real industrial farms. While I appreciate not being preached in such a heavy way, The farm could have benefited from a little more to look at this theme instead of simply following a scenario of horror of stereotypical survival in which Nora and Alec find themselves.

I will not try to convince you The farm is a great horror film, but it does an excellent job proving the concept that you do not need bumps in the night to make good fears, and I admire the will of the writer / director Hans Stjernsward Create a reality where neighboring communities are either ignorant of crimes against humanity which take place in their backyard, or are fully aware and simply do not care.

Streaming on Tubi for free, The farm BUT YOUR Patience if you can exceed its initial configuration. But if you plan to type before things really warm up, I wouldn’t blame you either.