If you loved XX, try There's Something Wrong with the Children

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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2017 · dir. Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin, Jovanka Vuckovic, St. Vincent

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There's Something Wrong with the Children

2023 · dir. Roxanne Benjamin

What they share

Both films are directed by Roxanne Benjamin, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to XX, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What There's Something Wrong with the Children is

A weekend cabin deep in the October pines. The children return from the woods whispering a word that isn’t quite English. Adults laugh it off until the grown-ups hear the same word from their own mouths after dark.

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