Directed by:
Friedrich BöhmCinematography:
Toby OliverComposer:
Paul HaslingerCast:
Liv Tyler, Bel Powley, Brad Dourif, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, James Le Gros, Charlotte Ubben, Frank Deal, Troy Ruptash, Mike Faist, Bhavesh Patel (more)Plots(1)
Anna (Bel Powley) spends her entire childhood under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as Daddy (Brad Dourif). He keeps her locked in an attic making her fear the Wildling, a child-eating monster that roams the outside. At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper (Liv Tyler) who helps her start a new life as a normal teenager. But as Anna's body begins to blossom, her childhood nightmares return with a vengeance, leading to the conclusion of a dark secret... (South by Southwest Film Festival)
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Well, that was really kitsch! It’s fine to look at; in terms of craftsmanship it’s very good – the cameraman knows how to produce nice shots – but other than that, Wilding is so sterile that I’m surprised at the positive reviews from abroad. It’s shallow where it pretends to be deep and cold as hell where it wants to show emotion. There’s absolutely no tension or fear because nobody has tried to generate any. If you fancy a horror/thriller genre film, go somewhere else. Wilding wants to be something more, but it fails to deliver anything “more”; and the last third can be laughable at times.
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Gríma Wormtongue and Arwen reunite in a film about a not-so-ordinary girl with a troubled family heritage. Wildling impresses at glance with gorgeous locations and nice camera shots, but story-wise it's a flat and at times very muddled genre mash-up that doesn't really know what it wants to be for much of the running time. Anna's gradual metamorphosis isn't that badly executed, but unlike the thematically similar film like Ginger Snaps, for example, it lacks suspense and terror. The dramatic line of the film was also shallow, so as said, Wildling appeals mainly through the visuals and the participation of the actors from Lord of the Rings, period.
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The entirety of the American horror film Wildling is actually about the transformation of a character, about understanding who she really is, how specific she is, how different she is. It's the classic American horror movie theme of a child turning into an adult, in this case a woman turning into a girl, but there are also other elements that she must embrace. The overall transformation is indeed filmed quite well.
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