Director: Emma Tammi

One key to creating a good horror film is isolation. Characters are almost always isolated physically (John Carpenter’s The Thing, Alien), culturally (Hostel), or both (An American Werewolf in London). Emma Tammi’s new film The Wind creates isolation through the setting of the Old West, where your nearest neighbors are often a mile or more away, and there are no cell phones with which to call 911. Reminiscent of recent slow-burn thriller/horror films, such as The Witch and Hereditary, this film, unlike this year’s Midsommar, immediately lets us know that something is off. The film opens with what appears to be a bloody childbirth, an event not unusual for a home birth in the Old West. But all is not what it seems…