In the Earth(2021)

If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com A festival with so much content must have ambiguous, dark, disturbing films. In The Earth is one of these movies, and it will surely be incredibly divisive. Unfortunately, I don't believe it worked for me. It goes from having a lunatic overly obsessed with some sort of spiritual entity to mixing up actual science using…

Reviewed on January 30, 2021

“In the Earth” is a psychedelic mash-up of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening” and “The Blair Witch Project,” and it is unpleasant to suffer through. This disorienting, bloody story about killer plants and a psycho in the woods is more like an experimental film than an enjoyable horror / sci-fi flick. A deadly virus has shut down the world, and Dr. Martin Lowery (Joel Fry) volunteers to work at a research facility…

Reviewed on March 9, 2021

In the Earth is the type of horror film that could be totally spoiled for you from the get-go on paper and it still wouldn’t prepare you for what actually takes place when you finally experience it for yourself. Ben Wheatley channels the psychotropic elements of A Field in England here than any other of his previous films. While the lack of a proper explanation of what is occurring can be considered frustrating or…

Reviewed on April 17, 2021

*In the Earth* is essentially a film about human beings discovering something vast, ancient and apparently communicative beneath their feet, then immediately assuming what it needs is better equipment. Martin and ranger Alma enter the woods looking for scientist Olivia Wendle, but Ben Wheatley steadily shifts the problem away from whatever pandemic has emptied the surrounding world. The real isolation is stranger.…

Reviewed on August 25, 2026