Along the way, they deliver rebukes to racist white staff who show them to a bad table in a restaurant, and humiliate a poor nebbishy white guy at a bar who makes the mistake of sending over to Dawn a mere vodka and cranberry cocktail when he should have noted the expensive champagne they were already drinking and bought them another bottle of the same. Also read: ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Recalls a Time of Dissidence and Oppression Which Resonates Today. This ignorance of what work looks like continues comically into the contemporary midsection of the film, when the fabulous intellectual celebrity Veronica Henley (Janelle Monáe once again) swanks into an academic conference to deliver a paper based on her book advocating racial and gender equality, Shedding the Coping Strategy. On television, the HBO series Lovecraft Country has blended 1950s racial drama with a myriad of lurid… In 2017, Jordan Peele released “Get Out” and forever changed the horror genre, introducing a psychological thriller whose social commentary was just as terrifying as the actual scares on screen. So… yes! One of the most terrifying places I ever saw was another plantation house in remote rural Louisiana. The movie is produced by Jordan Peele, who gave us both Get Out and Us, so it should come as no surprise that race and racism are at the forefront. That the point of the plantation system was to get rich raising cash crops dependent on the grueling, ceaseless labor of slaves, each bent over by the hour picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day, seems not to have occurred to Bush and Renz. I love psychological horror, survival horror and kick-ass women. Bottom line; If you liked Get Out and Us, then you definitely need to check out Antebellum as well – just be ready for the fact that this movie is on a different level in terms of nailing its plot points. Other than Native American burial grounds, no location in America is so haunted as the blood-soaked, magnolia-scented grounds of a Southern plantation, and the directors know this in theory, calling such a location “an open-air haunted house.” But theory isn’t practice. The duo made music videos in the past along with a documentary in 2016. Jordan Peele seems able to judge that distance, as we see when the “replacement” family stands in shadow, holding hands, at the end of the driveway in Us. The key to sustaining a horror film subgenre of great promise is to get people who can write and direct horror specifically. Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it’s too late. Also read: Axone Is a Story of Racism Told From the Eyes of the Privileged. The concept and overall plot of this movie are worthy of a definite top rating, but the execution just doesn’t work all that well. Thankfully, Veronica wasn’t gunned down down by racist, trigger-happy cops just as she regained her freedom. If there is one thing I cannot fault when it comes to Antebellum, it’s the opening scene. Plenty of brutal scenes full of realistic and racist horrors continue, but the timing and intensity is never that spot-on again. Also, please avoid spoilers and watch this movie knowing as little about it as possible. Some plot reveals are also slow to come which doesn’t help the story along. However, I can’t help but think this movie would’ve been better directed by Jordan Peele himself. Antebellum couldn’t and doesn’t evoke the look of Gone with the Wind, so you have to read the publicity material to even get the symbolic gesture. This is only their first real cinema film that they have directed together. It finally ends on our hero Eden’s capture — and the punishment and killing of the slaves who accompanied her. Like so many directors these days, they seem unable to research what actual physical labor looks like, so the scenes show us slaves standing upright by unnaturally tall cotton stalks poking feebly at cotton bolls while Captain Jasper (Jack Huston), a satanic combination of overseer and Confederate officer on horseback, rides among them gratuitously leering and tormenting them. It’s about a black artist living in the newly gentrified Cabrini-Green apartment building, a once-notorious housing project where people of color were abandoned to poverty and crime. The key to sustaining a horror film subgenre of great promise is to get people who can write and direct horror specifically. Both demanding and receiving the immediate full attention of its audience. But look, many of these projects are going to suck. Obviously, she isn’t the only actor in Antebellum which has many intriguing characters and solid performances. This article was first published on Jacobin. The Southern Gothic atmosphere alone was pervasively evil. Fortunately, horror doesn't use this nearly as much as comedy. The film starts in what appears to be a cotton plantation during the Civil War, where we see Confederate soldiers enforcing rules on Black slaves, torturing them, and even killing one for … This is Not a Jordan Peele Movie. They make a big point in one interview about “shooting the movie on the lenses from Gone with the Wind,” which sounds vaguely impressive in their terms: “Using the same weaponry that was used to misinform and create effective propaganda.”, Also read: The Working-Class Cinematic Legacy of Film Noir. The producers of Jordan Peele's Get Out and follow-up film Us are now back with a new blend of horror and racial commentary, with the new film Antebellum… No words are needed when both the imagery and music say so much. Movie Reviews / Movies. Also, I have a huge soft spot for a good horror-comedy. Antebellum is their feature film debut and it is a strong debut. However, Antebellum desperately needs Jordan Peele’s touch. That’s inevitable, and only dangerous if it winds up killing the general audience appetite for these stories. Other key characters are portrayed by actors such as Eric Lange (Escape at Dannemora) and Jack Huston (Mr. Mercedes), who both delivered some impressive and nuanced portrayals. It’s a confused mess about an enslaved woman named Eden (Janelle Monáe) seemingly trapped in the hell of Louisiana plantation life during the Civil War, who in the second act actually turns out to be an ultra-successful, contemporary black American sociologist named Veronica Henley, who — lurching into the third act — actually turns out to be embroiled in something else, again, that constitutes a spoiler for a movie you probably shouldn’t bother to see. It’s not surprising so many gave it a chance — ever since writer-director Jordan Peele’s hugely successful Get Out, Americans have warmly embraced this new subgenre in which the black experience is rendered as a horror movie. This is exactly what Jordan Peele tends to do so extremely well; Time the big reveals perfectly! It features a long-standing ghost tour dealing with the legend of the slave Chloe, whose story has inspired episodes of spooky reality TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries and Ghost Hunters. Practically no words are spoken, but the score swells as the camera pans across a slave plantation. I write reviews and recaps on Heaven of Horror. of Bad Ol' Days. In this reality, which seems even phonier than the plantation stuff, delivering a paper in the typically drab environs of an academic conference looks here like something between a TED Talk and a speech at the Oscars, all miked up and inspirational, with a standing ovation at the end. Her ear was cut off for eavesdropping on her white master Clarke Woodruff, and she subsequently fed a lethally poisoned dinner to his wife and children in revenge, for which she was hanged by fellow slaves fearing repercussions. The same goes for Kiersey Clemons from the Flatliners reboot and Sweetheart, who I wish would have had a much bigger part in Antebellum. Facebook; Messenger; Twitter; Pinterest; Whatsapp; Email ; The main body of this Antebellum review is spoiler free, with all spoilers confined to the very end of the article. Unfortunately, the team that created Antebellum are hopeless at horror. Well, I don’t think two white men making this movie would have lead to the same result. Their scenes of whippings, brandings, and rapes are handled in the rote manner of directors who’ve seen a lot of movies featuring whippings, brandings, and rapes in the Old South. Antebellum begins with an escape attempt by a group including Veronica and her friend Eli (Tongayi Chirisa), leading to the murder of a nameless slave woman by … They’re absolute villains of the story but it’s intriguing to watch them be this cruel in very realistic ways. ANTEBELLUM is a new horror-thriller that plays with the concept of time and eras as well as political issues. He is best known for his television and film work in the comedy and horror genres. Without that, it can’t last. The idea of ‘Get Out’ is a Black man, who's being treated incredibly … Some might even presume this is Peele’s latest masterpiece, however, it is the feature debut from music video directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz. Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher RenzWriters: Gerard Bush, Christopher RenzCast: Janelle Monáe, Marque Richardson II, Eric Lang, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Tongayi Chirisa, Gabourey Sidibe, Rob Aramayo, Lily Cowles, Jena Malone. With Antebellum, Janelle Monáe is the absolute star of a feature film after having co-starred in Hidden Figures (2016) with Octavia Spencer (Ma) and Taraji P. Henson. Without that, it can’t last. She must fight the … September 15, 2020 September 18, 2020. They have connections to Democratic Party big shots like former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who once stopped by their office for advice on “activat[ing] Black voters in the midterms.” Antebellum is their film debut. The film is about the successful writer Veronica Henley (Janelle Monáe). Continue reading our spoiler-free Antebellum movie review below. The filmmaker duo Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz wrote and directed Antebellum together. It’s still somewhat amazing that even rookies could’ve botched a horror film set on a Southern plantation so badly. Peele is known for both his fun, zany characters in comedy series’ and movies, and as the director for some of the best horror movies of this century. The several scenes featuring slaves picking cotton are a good example. Examples: a few survivors of attacks by people risen from their graves take refuge in an old farmhouse and spend a night fighting off the “living dead”; a psychotic child who’s institutionalised for killing his sister on Halloween breaks out as an adult and returns to his hometown on another Halloween murder rampage; an alcoholic writer gets a job as caretaker at a huge hotel in the mountains which is closed for the winter, and settles in with his anxious wife and troubled psychic son for six months of total isolation; or a young black man goes with his white girlfriend to visit her parents in their country home where discomfort over everyday racism in the white “liberal” enclave soon turns to terror as it becomes clear that something very bad happens to black people who go there. Stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker • Director Jordan Peele • Rating R • Box office $174 million • Rotten Tomatoes 97 percent In general, it helps to allow the audience to macerate in the awful effects of one nightmarish scenario which reveals its terrors over time, and with so-called horror noire, the black experience is rife with just such scenarios. Despite the fact that I was quite disappointed with elements of the Antebellum movie, I do still think the concept alone makes it very relevant and important. Consider the plot of Jordan Peele’s forthcoming sequel to Candyman (1992). Here we witness pure evil and brutality in various forms. But the problem is it’s way too soon to be tipped off. Many watched it, few liked it. by Iain McNally. She is confronted with her success by the world. Also read: How Cinema Under the Nazis Distracted Germans From the War – and Survived Until the End. Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Sep 17, 2020 | Read Time 3 min. In other words, I really hope people will watch this and take it all in. However, Antebellum desperately needs Jordan Peele’s touch. Spoilers for ‘Antebellum’ On July 1, on his podcast, ‘The Ben Shapiro Show’, the right-wing political commentator launched into a tirade against Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed 2017 horror film ‘Get Out’. The question of why this would represent any woman’s full power or best life is another puzzling rabbit hole you could go down as you wile away the time during the duller parts of Antebellum. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Building off the success of movies like Get Out and Us, writer-director Jordan Peele has begun to inspire a new generation of African-American filmmakers to explore genre stories of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Watching Antebellum is so boring and frustrating, you have plenty of time to think about how it’s all going wrong from the very first shot. After her hit talk, Henley and her friends go out for a luxurious night on the town — the irrepressible Dawn (Gabourey Sidibe), who’s black, and the sardonic Sarah (Lily Cowles), who’s white. Share this. 'Antebellum', written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, gives psychological horror a new kind of meaning. Antebellum comes at a particularly fraught moment in our cultural present and forces viewers to think about race, white supremacy, and America's monstrous history through the horror genre. I have to admit I didn’t really understand the point of this lengthy scene, which seems to equate snob values with grrrl-power feminism in the form of a mean lecture on nightmare courtship rituals. Not since The Invisible Man has an opening scene been that good at setting the mood. It’s unfortunate that Peele is only cowriting and producing this film, when his directing skills are most needed! For the record,  Gerard Bush is a black man while Christopher Renz is white. With “Antebellum,” “Lovecraft Country” and the forthcoming “Candyman” reboot, Jordan Peele and/or “Get Out” has been invoked in the marketing. The tottering son toured us location scouts around the place, showing us points of interest such as the door to an underground passageway, long collapsed, that used to lead from the “young masters’s” bedroom wing directly to the slave quarters, so they could go on rape treks without offending white ladies or getting their feet wet on rainy nights. Actually, I tend to be pretty happy with Janelle Monáe’s performances in movies and TV series. Shapiro said, “It's unbelievable to me this movie really was not perceived as how racist it is -- the movie ‘Get Out’ is really about this, right. One that might be a more accurate reflection of the current state of race relations in modern America. ), Latest posts by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard, The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness – Netflix Review (3/5), Axeman at Cutter’s Creek – Movie Review (2/5), The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It (2020). Check out Toni Morrison’s Beloved, or maybe visit the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana, the most famous of the haunted plantations. Janelle Monáe leads twisted trailer for surprise horror film Antebellum The new movie hails from the producers of Jordan Peele's Get Out and Us . So when the movie’s big twist is finally revealed, it lands with a thud. And people assume horror lovers are the messed up ones. 'Antebellum' Fails at Making a Horror Movie Out of the Experience of Racism in America, ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Recalls a Time of Dissidence and Oppression Which Resonates Today, The Working-Class Cinematic Legacy of Film Noir, How Cinema Under the Nazis Distracted Germans From the War – and Survived Until the End, Axone Is a Story of Racism Told From the Eyes of the Privileged. For this they have made more short films, especially music video clips. This is doubly baffling since director Gerard Bush claims many female academics among his family and friends, and surely he could simply have asked them about the lousy fluorescent-lit hotel conference rooms, the pressed wood and laminate panel tables, and the seated scholars reading their papers in deadening monotones. Premiering on September 18, Antebellum quickly became America’s most-watched video-on-demand movie — as well as one of the worst-reviewed, with remarkably low satisfaction scores from critics and audiences. Why put the cast and crew through one of those grueling multi-minute tracking shots that can take days to do, just to accomplish something perfectly straightforward about outbursts of violence emerging from ordinary workdays on plantations? And that’s only the beginning of a very long, pointlessly complex tracking shot, purportedly showing us the workings of Southern plantation life, with many crisscrossings of white plantation family members, slaves, and omnipresent Confederate soldiers who seem to be camping out on the grounds. And yes, it does happen that I find myself screaming, when watching a good horror movie. Admittedly, there’s an X factor in directing horror, with certain formal effects creating fear for reasons that aren’t entirely clear and require directorial instinct to pull off, which Bush and Renz seem to lack. Oh yeah, and I absolutely HATE when animals are harmed in movies, so I will immediately think less of any movie, where animals are harmed for entertainment (even if the animals are just really good actors). By Joey Nolfi He’s created a cottage industry of these projects, which includes not only the ones he’s involved with as writer-director (Us) or producer (Lovecraft Country), but many other film and TV projects riding the very wave he created. They don’t seem to understand how to create and control cinematic sensations. I’m sure the name Jordan Peele is recognizable for one of two reasons: either from his writing/directing of Get Out or being one half of the comedy duo Key and Peele. It was being rented out as a movie location in a vain effort to keep the place from slowly falling in on itself, and the owners were the last of their Southern aristocratic family line — a seedy bachelor son who was extremely old, and his father, who was as ancient as a vampire, and drooled copiously and continuously into a dirty white handkerchief. 10 Horror Movies To Watch If You Love Antebellum | ScreenRant Just think of the twin girls in the hallway of The Shining. She did also star as the main protagonist in season 2 of Homecoming, where she did a great job. ANTEBELLUM is a new horror-thriller that plays with the concept of time and eras as well as political issues. For example, if you can judge the distance in a long shot of a monstrous entity in relation to the human viewing it, you can create a lasting moment of terror. In the last five years or so, the world of scary movies has repeatedly been used as a vessel to tell stories about the struggles and problems of the Black experience in modern America — most notably via Jordan Peele's thrilling one-two punch of Get Out and Us.. That like Jordan Peele’s alternate ending for Get Out, Antebellum might have gone for a far more downbeat ending. Premiering on September 18, Antebellum quickly became America’s most-watched video-on-demand movie — as well as one of the worst reviewed, with remarkably low satisfaction scores from critics and audiences. Antebellum is a new horror thriller directed, written and produced in part by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renze. Facebook; Messenger; Twitter; Pinterest; Whatsapp; Email; Share this. Antebellum (2020) is out on premium video-on-demand from September 18, 2020. He doesn’t make the initial mistake of Bush and Renz, who probably sold their script on the dubious merits of convoluted plotting with multiple big reveals, that the reality we’re shown is a false front soon to give way to another part of the total reality. Jena Malone (Bottom of the World) is fascinating in a way similar to that of her Hunger Games’ character. She definitely isn’t likable, but you have no doubt where she stands. Antebellum Dept. Jordan Haworth Peele, né le 21 février 1979 à New York, est un acteur, humoriste, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur américain.Il est notamment connu pour la série télévisée humoristique à sketchs Key & Peele de Comedy Central avec Keegan-Michael Key et ses cinq saisons comme membre de Mad TV.Il a aussi joué dans la première saison de la série télévisée Fargo de FX. “Antebellum” co-writer/director/producer Gerard Bush poses for a portrait before a screening of his film hosted by Color of Conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. You can read the original article here. There’s such overwhelming theatrical artifice to the shot that if you’re paying attention, you’re tipped off immediately to the fact that something is wrong about this whole setup. Gone with the Wind was a Technicolor extravaganza, with all the specialized, patented equipment and eye-popping effect for which it was once famous. He’s haunted by the murderous ghost of a nineteenth-century black artist known as “Candyman,” the son of a slave who’d attained wealth through white patronage and then was lynched for falling in love with a white woman. Does this matter? But one very concrete thing that tends to work in horror is a certain directness and simplicity in the basic plot setup that allows the details of sinister atmosphere and scary developments to come to the fore. This movie would have been quite different if the main character had been portrayed differently. We definitely need these stories to counter over a hundred years of American film history, especially those countless movies embracing the lugubrious “Lost Cause” narrative, mourning the collapse of a romanticised Southern neverland of noble Confederate soldiers, flirtatious plantation belles, and happy slaves — “a civilization gone with the wind.”. Antebellum is an artistic failure of two directors whose lofty goals supersede their ability to meet them. Something I think people didn’t love about Antebellum is the link to Jordan Peele they presume it had due to the film’s marketing materials, which seemed to confuse audiences. Don’t get me wrong. Janelle Monáe with London Boyce in ‘Antebellum’. But it could have been downright amazing! Let’s just reaffirm that we continue to hope for better things from the black American horror film subgenre. You’d never know it from reading the excited behind-the-scenes accounts of their deal with Lionsgate, the number of fawning interviews they’ve done about Antebellum, or how many times they call themselves “artists,” but the team of Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz are mere high-end advertising flacks who created campaigns for Vogue, Porsche, and Harry Winston. Bush and Renz have no directorial feeling for atmosphere, or for the specific details of slavery that make the horror of it come alive. But it’s a bewildering nonissue in terms of their film’s formal quality. Kiersey Clemons (left) and Janelle Monae (right) in ‘Antebellum.’ Photo:Twitter/antebellumfilm. Go figure! Since the “Antebellum” South of the film’s title is the prewar South, it’s another one of the film’s many what-the-hell plot holes to ponder over considering that the plantation scenes are taking place during the Civil War itself. Unfortunately, the rest of Antebellum can’t live up to this opening scene. Photo: Twitter/antebellumfilm. Many watched it, few liked it.It’s not surprising so many gave it a chance — ever since writer-director Jordan Peele’s hugely successful Get Out, Americans have […] Bush and Renz seem incapable of staging anything convincingly. Horror has always been a genre steeped in social commentary. The movie is produced by Jordan Peele, who gave us both Get Out and Us, so it should come as no surprise that race and racism are at the forefront. That last film described is of course Get Out, Peele’s amazingly sure-handed debut film. For Antebellum, she just did not work very well which is a damn shame. Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. T seem to understand how to create and control cinematic sensations ve been better directed by Jordan Peele s! 1979 ) is out on premium video-on-demand From September 18, 2020 been portrayed differently psychological horror, horror. 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