In the Tall Grass Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Vincenzo Natali’s work and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it turned out to be a very minimalist horror flick but even though I have a weak spot for the genre, I still had a hard time to care about the damned thing. Indeed, a huge chunk of the duration was about a handful of characters endlessly wandering in this tall grass and constantly calling out each other and it became rather repetitive fairly quickly. I’m not surprised that it was adapted from a novella and there is a fair chance that the material was not enough for a full length feature like this one. Fortunately, the whole thing became much more interesting when they started to mix up the chronology and it could have been really neat if they kept bring up more and more characters from different time periods. However, instead, they decided to randomly turn Patrick Wilson’s character into a bag guy which was rather underwhelming. I mean, why him and not Tobin, for example, who also touched this ominous stone? In my opinion, it would have been more efficient to having all the characters fighting together some invisible threat (in fact, pretty much like in ‘Cube’, Vincenzo Natali’s directing debut). Eventually, as usual with King’s work, in spite of a decent mood and a few good ideas, the whole thing felt terribly far-fetched. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was watchable, it turned out to be another average and rather lazy Stephen King adaptation and I will probably completely forget about it within a couple of days.