The Scary of Sixty-First
Dasha Nekrasova leaps out of the gate with an audacious, out-there horror debut as creepy as it is transgressive. (This review is part of our coverage of the 2021 Berlin Film Festival.) Once upon a time, when a horror film was described as being “transgressive,” it indicated that it dealt with material that went far beyond the social mores of the time. Even fans of the genre were startled by what they were seeing in films like Psycho (1960), Night of the Living Dead (1968), and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Nowadays, when a horror film is described that way, it's just code for being super violent and nothing else. Continue Reading →