In the Fire2023

🏆 1 win & 5 nominations

Horror Vault's take

Set against the lush, suffocating backdrop of an 1890s Latin American plantation, In the Fire follows a New York psychiatrist who journeys into a remote, suspicious community to treat a deeply troubled boy with abilities that defy rational explanation. As she fights to protect her young patient through reason and medicine, a fervent local priest rallies the village against her, convinced the child is a vessel for something unholy. The tension between enlightened science and entrenched religious belief builds to a fever pitch, trapping the doctor between two irreconcilable worlds. Amber Heard anchors this period Gothic slow-burn as a woman whose conviction is tested at every turn.

Content: Depictions Of A Disturbed Child, Religious Extremism And Persecution, Peril Involving A Minor