What Josiah Saw

Film - 2021

7,5

30.7K

What Josiah Saw it's a movie with Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze, Kelli Garner, Tony Hale Full cast. Directed by Vincent Grashaw. Original title What Josiah Saw, runtime 120 minutes. Genres Horror, Thriller.

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Stefano De Rosa

For me it was the real (very pleasant!) surprise of the 2021 edition of the TFF: the very dark “What Josiah saw”, a film perfectly at ease in the “Rol's Rooms” section of the festival. Directed (masterfully) by Vincent Grashaw, the film is a two-hour long, intense journey into the depths of the four (deeply "disturbed") members of an ("abnormal") Texan family. The film is divided into segments that introduce us to the various characters (who, as we will see, all have biblical names to underline the very predominant religious one among the various themes): the first part (in my opinion the most solid one together with the final one) is dedicated to his father Josiah, widowed following the suicide of his wife, played by a stellar Robert Patrick (the unforgettable villain T-1000 in Terminator 2), and his younger son (completely "displaced" and dominated by his parent) Tommy. The two, who live together on a farm outside the city, have a symbiotic, almost sick relationship, and are victims of disturbing nocturnal visits from the deceased landlady. We then meet Eli, on probation, who prostitutes himself to make ends meet and is also haunted by the ghosts of the past. The most normal one seems to be (only at first glance!) her sister Mary, even married, who has always been afraid of having children (to the point of having her tubes tied) but who now seems to lean towards adoption. What brings the four psychotics together is an offer for the purchase of the farm by an oil company and the rapprochement acts, as was easily predictable, as a detonator of old resentments that are anything but dormant and of traumas still well rooted in their minds sick of the four protagonists. The result is a progressive and hallucinating drift up to the very cruel epilogue. What is most striking about this psychological thriller/horror by Grashaw is the ability to always keep the story very high Read all

Francesca Munarin

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A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.