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Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
An intriguing oddity
While superficially it may seem to be cut from similar cloth to "A Field in England" or "The Witch", "Fanny Lye Deliver'd" has more in common with early '70s films "Straw Dogs" and "The Devils". Very well shot (it looks far better than the awful generic poster, despite the occasional overuse of mist). Excellent performances from all concerned, and nicely timed and believable character revelations help to create shifting sympathies between the main characters. None of them are as good or as bad as they initially seem, and their own preconceptions blind them to their common ground. A film with a genuinely transgressive (and in the end, weirdly wholesome) energy, that just screams "future cult favourite"
The Borderlands (2013)
Interesting
Surprisingly effective low budget found footage/folk horror mashup. Occasional lapses into cliche are forgivable as the final twenty minutes is wonderfully tense. I look forward to to seeing what the writer/director does next.