In the Earth (2021): Nature Fights Back, Strangely

James Lanternman
4 min readJun 26, 2021

Ben Wheatley returns to A Field In England (2013) territory with a horror tale that takes place in the British woods. The story is propelled by dark, preternatural forces, with a hallucinogenic air. It could almost be called A Woods In England, though its story takes place in the modern world.

By “modern world” I mean right now in the present, in the middle of a fictional…

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