“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.”
-B.R. Haydon
Love and death are the two most powerful forces in human experience. They are the engines of our stories because they are the engines of our existence. Our hopes, desires, heartbreaks, and fears so often hang on these two factors—ever-present and constantly in tension. Horror, more often than not, preoccupies itself with the latter but from time to time, a really great horror love story comes along. Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s Spring is not only a great love story but an acknowledgment of the eternal balance of love and death that connects us to each other, the ancient and ongoing human story, and perhaps even the infinite.
Spring is quintessential Moorhead & Benson, who from their first feature, Resolution (2012), to their most recent, Something in the Dirt (2022), have explored vast and...
-B.R. Haydon
Love and death are the two most powerful forces in human experience. They are the engines of our stories because they are the engines of our existence. Our hopes, desires, heartbreaks, and fears so often hang on these two factors—ever-present and constantly in tension. Horror, more often than not, preoccupies itself with the latter but from time to time, a really great horror love story comes along. Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s Spring is not only a great love story but an acknowledgment of the eternal balance of love and death that connects us to each other, the ancient and ongoing human story, and perhaps even the infinite.
Spring is quintessential Moorhead & Benson, who from their first feature, Resolution (2012), to their most recent, Something in the Dirt (2022), have explored vast and...
- 2/14/2024
- by Brian Keiper
- bloody-disgusting.com
Spring
Written by Justin Benson
Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
USA, 2014
The less you know about Spring before its arrival, the more enthralling its subtle charms. This is a delicate little gem that reveals its mysteries grudgingly; a seamless blend of moods and genres that never stops surprising you. Darkly comic and unflinchingly romantic, Spring steeps its horror mythology in realism to create a genuine sense of uneasiness. Director Justin Benson’s exquisite story of painful transformation is one of 2015’s best films.
The first 30 minutes of the new horror film, Spring, function wonderfully as a straight drama. It methodically builds its characters from the ground up, showing a strident disregard for horror conventions. We meet Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci); a college dropout working dead-end jobs just to survive. Evan left college to care for his ailing mother, but that’s over now. He’s an orphan with “the same backstory as Batman,...
Written by Justin Benson
Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
USA, 2014
The less you know about Spring before its arrival, the more enthralling its subtle charms. This is a delicate little gem that reveals its mysteries grudgingly; a seamless blend of moods and genres that never stops surprising you. Darkly comic and unflinchingly romantic, Spring steeps its horror mythology in realism to create a genuine sense of uneasiness. Director Justin Benson’s exquisite story of painful transformation is one of 2015’s best films.
The first 30 minutes of the new horror film, Spring, function wonderfully as a straight drama. It methodically builds its characters from the ground up, showing a strident disregard for horror conventions. We meet Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci); a college dropout working dead-end jobs just to survive. Evan left college to care for his ailing mother, but that’s over now. He’s an orphan with “the same backstory as Batman,...
- 3/26/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
When it played last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival, the supernatural love story film “Spring” was described as a supernatural twist on the “Before Sunrise” narrative. Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, the film stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, and Francesco Carnelutti. The movie follows a troubled American backpacker in Italy, whose romance with a seductive but mysterious local turns into an unexpected nightmare, when her dark, primordial secret threatens to destroy their new-found happiness. In all the Midnight Madness fuss, some may have missed that the score was composed by Jimmy Lavalle aka The Album Leaf — a sonorously beautiful ambient band known for Lavalle’s use of electronics, synthesizer and Rhodes piano, that has toured with Sigur Rós. His Icelandic counterparts often find their music being used for films, so it’s really about time other filmmakers became hip to Lavalle’s cinematic and...
- 3/19/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Evan needs to get away for awhile after his mother dies. With no set schedule or destination plan in place, he ends up on the coast of Italy, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman named Louise. Their blossoming romance seems like a fairy tale, but the dark secret Louise harbors could turn their relationship into a living nightmare that’s hinted at in the first trailer for Spring.
Spring makes its world premiere at Tiff tonight. We have the film’s official synopsis and cast information below (courtesy of Tiff):
“When his ailing mother dies, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci, of the recent Evil Dead) realizes his life isn’t going anywhere. Grabbing his last paycheque, he decides to go on the European graduation trip that he never got a chance to take. Picking a destination at random, he arrives in Italy, where he backpacks and parties with other tourists.
Spring makes its world premiere at Tiff tonight. We have the film’s official synopsis and cast information below (courtesy of Tiff):
“When his ailing mother dies, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci, of the recent Evil Dead) realizes his life isn’t going anywhere. Grabbing his last paycheque, he decides to go on the European graduation trip that he never got a chance to take. Picking a destination at random, he arrives in Italy, where he backpacks and parties with other tourists.
- 9/6/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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