SXSW 2021 Film Reviews Portal

ALL OF MY 2021 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE IN ONE PLACE

Welcome to my coverage of 2021’s SXSW Film Festival! This year’s festival - like almost all events before it - has been transformed into a virtual experience due to COVID-19, but that doesn’t diminish the caliber of its offerings. This year marks my first year as accredited press at SXSW, and I’m so excited to be able to review a selection from the festival. You can find my entire coverage here.

Jakob’s Wife

Horror legend Barbara Crampton takes the spotlight in Travis Stevens’ sanguine vampire comedy, Jakob’s Wife. Embracing its B-movie trappings, the film tackles its themes of empowerment with the subtlety of a stake to the heart, but Crampton makes everything work with a hypnotic, career-best performance. Jakob’s Wife is camp horror brought to rousing life with blood spilled and guts strewn, and the fun everyone is having is infectious. Read my full review here.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Ambitious, exhaustive, and utterly entrancing, Kier-La Janisse’s three-hour-plus treatise on folk horror is an education in a bottle. A deep, dark rabbit hole that examines the power of storytelling and tales inherited, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched is more than a mere documentary, it’s an essential text. Read my full review here.