Wildling's reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
First-time filmmaker Fritz Böhm turns those old dark fairytales sideways in 'Wildling' ? a clever, sharp-fanged mélange of classic midnight-movie horror and modern indie ingenuity.
New York Post
A supernatural 'What?s Happening to My Body?' parable in company with 'Carrie', 'Ginger Snaps' and last year?s 'Thelma', 'Wildling' is low-key with an undertone of menace, skillfully directed by Fritz Böhm in his feature debut (though some of his nighttime scenes are so dark it?s genuinely hard to tell what?s going on).
The Hollywood Reporter
In acknowledging and celebrating civilization?s savage origins, they ground the narrative in the fundamentals of human biology and psychology while judiciously referencing the established canon of horror archetypes, even if the film begins as more of a twisted thriller than a horror feature.
New York Times
Anna?s first outdoor encounter with sunlight, her interactions with high school classmates and her budding romantic interest in Ellen?s younger brother (Collin Kelly-Sordelet) make up the best scenes in the movie, which suffers as much as she does when she turns into a special effect.
Cine Premiere
Therefore, the sexuality in 'Wildling' works as a metaphor for destruction and, at the same time, rebirth, as well as in fairytales. However, Böhm doesn't manage to make his own one round. Towards the ending, in fact, when the fantasy is over and out of control, the movie loses in logic, with a script that doesn't justify at all the road followed.
Roger Ebert
There?s a long history of folklore and fairy tales from which 'Wildling' cribs, but it?s just a poorly-made film, lit too dark, cut haphazardly, and tonally inconsistent. I?ve liked Powley in the past, and she certainly gives her all to this role physically, so I kept trying to find my way into the world of 'Wildling' only to feel pushed out of it in nearly every scene.