Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, Flickchart, The Free Lance-Star, and more.
The Big Picture Listen, I'm never going to complain about a movie where Samara Weaving gets angry, primal, and violent. E.L. Katz'sAzrael, written by Simon Barrett, is a cutthroat minimalist action-thriller that utters barely any dialogue as Weaving goes appropriately berserk. Worldbuilding is accomplished through aggressive violence, outdoorsy costume designs, and the desolate shooting location of Harju County, Estonia.
Release Date March 11, 2024 Director E.L. Katz Cast Samara Weaving , Nathan Stewart-Jarrett , Sebastian Bull , Eero Milonoff , Vic Carmen Sonne , Vincent Willestrand , Peter Christoffersen , Rea Lest Runtime 85 Minutes Weaving stars as the title character Azrael, a woman we meet deep in a wooded area, both alert and panicked. An opening title card reads, "Many years after the rapture, among the survivors, some are driven to renounce their sin of speech.
Barrett takes a chance by conveying a theologically spooky genre flick that cannot use words, but shaves his screenplay to the point of efficient simplicity. Between a few ominous drawings on walls like picture-book commandments, crosses branded on characters, and pregnant figures dressed in all white, it's not hard to decipher what stage of the apocalypse we might see.
That said, Azrael does suffer from its ambitions at some point. While Rob Savage's Host is hardly a thematic or storytelling comparison, the filmmaker's approach to miniaturized concepts relates to Katz's gritty-as-sin tale. Host clocks in at 54 minutes, running leaner and nastier than if it had ballooned closer to the feature-length sweet spot of 90 minutes.
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