‘Don’t believe everything you hear’
Thine Ears Shall Bleed is a 2024 supernatural horror film about a family who hear mysterious sounds that begat evil.
Directed and edited by Ben Bigelow from a screenplay co-written with William Bigelow. Produced by Dennis Aig, Jim Kouf, Lynn Kouf and Steven A. Lee.
The Unnecessary Mountain Productions movie stars Andrew Hovelson, Lea Zawada, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Hannah Cabell and Duke Huston.
Plot:
In the 1860’s American West, a minister and his family are travelling in a covered wagon when they hear a mysterious sound from the woods. Believing the sound to be God, they worship it, until they realise the sound is something much darker…
Reviews:
” …it just isn’t as smart as it wants to be. This isn’t a bad thing, per se: the most cerebral horrors can be the most tedious and self-congratulatory. But Bigelow’s picture meanders all over the place, offers only a small portion of the macabre, and demands to be taken seriously even as it treats its own themes with a fumbling disregard.” ★★ The Guardian
” …the conceptual mix of misguided religious fervor and diabolical predation in an American West of 160 years ago or so keeps the enterprise reasonably compelling. It’s always interesting to see familiar genre tropes deployed through the lens of an epoch underrepresented onscreen. While Bigelow’s vision isn’t as inspired as one might ideally like, it does earn credit for not taking the road-fork that leads to jump scares…” Variety
Trailer:
Release date:
July 9, 2024
Cast and characters:
Andrew Hovelson … Reverend Ezekiel Thatcher; Lea Zawada … Abigail Thatcher; Lucas Near-Verbrugghe … Woodrow Booker; Hannah Cabell … Sarah Thatcher; Duke Huston … Luke Thatcher
Country of origin:
USA
Technical specs:
1 hour 42 minutes
Aspect ratio: 2.35: 1
