ELSE (TIFF 2024) – Review by Rachel West
More than a pandemic movie, Else is above all a body horror film. Watching people slowly and grotesquely merge with their surroundings – be it the sidewalk, a tree, or a bedsheet – is horrifying. But this change happens so gradually and mostly off-screen that the horror isn’t nearly exciting enough, especially for a Midnight Madness audience that kicked the program off with Coralie Fargeat’s excellent body horror The Substance.
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