Butter on the Latch2013
Directed by Josephine Decker
🏆 2 nominations
The premise
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
Horror Vault's take
Two women bonded by a love of Balkan folk music attend an immersive music camp, where the communal rituals and hypnotic rhythms create an intoxicating backdrop for something far more sinister to take root. When romantic rivalry fractures their friendship, the line between what is real and what is imagined begins to blur in deeply disturbing ways. Director Josephine Decker crafts an intimate, tactile horror that lives in glances, gestures, and the creeping dread beneath the surface of female intimacy. This is folk-inflected psychological horror at its most elliptical and unsettling.
Content: Sexual Content, Psychological Distress, Disorienting Editing That May Unsettle Some Viewers
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