Shakespeare's England, today: Ben Wheatley's family tragicomedy HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD (2018) rearranges the dynastic deck chairs, looking back and forward to the nation's endless disco dance of power. A #PerinnealPicture https://projectedfigures.com/2018/12/18/happy-new-year-colin-burstead-2018

"a beautifully, achingly sad film where horror and sci-fi merely modulate those feelings which it is hard for us to confront directly": Al White's STARFISH (2018) is a genre-paved journey through grief. *Big* recommend! Also, a #PerinnealPicture
#Grief #Horror #SciFi #Apocalypse https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/11/starfish-2018/

"an apocalyptic farce where New Year’s Eve might also be the End of Days":
Caye Casas & Alberto Pintó’s KILLING GOD (MATAR A DIOS, 2017) is a #PerinnealPicture https://projectedfigures.com/2019/06/02/killing-god-matar-a-dios-2017/

"Here, it is cinema itself which is the phantom carriage, taking us on a journey that can divert, horrify and depress – but also enlighten and improve": Victor Sjöström’s silent horror THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (KÖRKARLEN, 1921) is a #PerinnealPicture
#SilentMovies #SilentHorror #SwedishHorror https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/25/the-phantom-carriage-korkarlen-1921/

Deliverance, Australian style: in Damien Power’s feature debut KILLING GROUND (2016), history repeats. A #PerinnealPicture https://projectedfigures.com/2018/01/13/killing-ground-2016

56 Roy Andersson-like tableaux encompassing all of society at the end of the year (and of the world): Rúnar Rúnarsson's ECHO (BERGMÁL) (2019) is a #PerinnealPicture https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/24/echo-bergmal-2019

Mediapocalypse: David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush's THE SIGNAL (2007) "asks if there is ever any real escape short of simply switching off – which is harder than it sounds with a film as mesmerising, astonishing and irresistible as this." This trippily genre-fluid reimagining of The Crazies is a #PerinnealPicture #Horror https://projectedfigures.com/2013/07/10/the-signal-2012/

"a tragic character study of one man's flight from society, reality and himself": Sarah Adina Smith's elegantly enigmatic Buster's Mal Heart (2016) is a #PerinnealPicture https://projectedfigures.com/2017/05/24/busters-mal-heart-2016/

BOGOF: here are TWO reviews of Peter Strickland's mesmerising two-part tale of consumerist rituals and smalltown ensorcellement IN FABRIC (2018), which is a #PerinnealPicture
"Try on this alluring one-off, and realise the fantasy"
https://projectedfigures.com/2018/10/16/in-fabric-2018/
https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/19/in-fabric-2008/

ok, in need of a decent hashtag to categorise films set in or celebrating the period between Xmas and the New Year, I'm merging 'perineal' and 'perennial' into the coinage 'perinneal' #PerinnealPicture