The Wind 2018

   The setting of this film is the Western frontier of the late 1800’s.  Lizzy Macklin is living in a cabin on the planes.  She doesn’t know if she can stand the harshness and the isolation of this untamed land.  She has left her home in St. Louis with her husband Isaac to begin a settlement.  There are times when her husband is gone and that makes the loneliness even more difficult.  In the beginning, Lizzy is completely alone but Emma and Gideon Harper arrive from Illinois.  They move into an abandoned cabin nearby.  Lizzy and Emma become friends but Lizzy feels that Emma’s marriage to Gideon is not going smoothy?  Lizzy confides in Emma and tells her that she lost her son Samuel right after birth.  Lizzy felt that a demon was coming to her in the night throughout her pregnancy.  This was also more of a problem when Issac was away.  Gideon comes to see Lizzy in the night and he says Emma is unwell.  Lizzy learns that Emma is expecting a baby and she’s under the bed.  She tells Lizzy that a supernatural presence wants her unborn baby?
     I thought this film was confusing, didn’t make sense at times and you may need to view it twice to see what you have missed except it’s not worth the time to watch it again!!!  Also, I don’t know what it was about this film, maybe it was the anticipation of something terrible happening but it made my stomach hurt to watch it??  I was really GLAD for it to be over and I didn’t know much more about the plot afterward than in the beginning!!!  Maybe there are other things more interesting to do than watch this film??  Hang laundry outside, cut out coupons, pull weeds and other light tasks ??  1* (I hated this movie)     
 
86 min, horror directed by Emma Tammi and written by Teresa Sutherland with Caitlin Gerard, Julia Golden Telles, Ashley Zukerman, Miles Anderson, Dylan McTee, Martin Patterson.
Note:  Imdb 5.5 out of 10 with 4,136 views, Rotten Tomatoes 81% with 62 critics 51% audience with 145 ratings, Roger Ebert 3 1/2*, RollingStone 3 1/2* out of 5* David Fear, collider.com Grade B-, Amazon 3.4* out of 5* with 140 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in New Mexico.  This film has no connection to the 1928 Lillian Gish classic film The Wind.  Emma seems to enjoy Gothic literature such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ann Radliffe’s the Mysteries of Udolpho.