Lace Crater
After a bizarre sexual encounter with a ghost, a twenty-something woman (Lindsay Burdge) begins experiencing inexplicable changes in her body. Harrison Atkins directs this supernatural horror-comedy, which received its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
31 August 1981, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 July 1982, London, England, UK
19 September 1986, New York City, New York, USA
14 July 1988, Coral Springs, Florida, USA
October 17, 2017
A queasy demise is the best-case scenario on the other side of a one-night stand in Harrison Atkins' Lace Crater, a s-s-s-s-s-s-spooky and inventive indie debut that's best seen, if possible, in a packed theatre.
August 08, 2016
Atkins continues to grow as a filmmaker with Lace Crater and it's inspiring and refreshing to see such an interesting person with peculiar points of view pursuing their vision.
August 08, 2016
Slight though it may be, Lace Crater's mix of Andrew Bujalski-style naturalism and Roman Polanski-style body horror is at least off-kilter enough to keep one absorbed throughout.
July 31, 2016
The director ... puts together a picture that slyly has much more going on beneath its laid-back surface.
August 03, 2016
Lace Crater elbows us to think about how quickly we dismiss "crazy ladies" - women who need things we can't give, who cry and mutter and glare and ruin parties
August 08, 2016
It's a story that has its share of unnerving sequences, but like its pivotal character, it feels stuck between two worlds.
July 28, 2016
Ms. Burdge - all quicksilver emotion and exposed nerve endings - is an endlessly watchable focal point. Her character's vulnerability, uncertainty and growing self-acceptance lend the movie a necessary gravity.
August 08, 2016
What at first looks like a mumblecore comedy with a supernatural twist turns into something darker, and many viewers will not feel like going along for the detour into psychological horror.
August 12, 2016
Atkins' modest means bely ambitious notions about the haunted self, drawing not only from the lo-fi snapshots of early comedies by Bujalski and Swanberg but, yes, even the psychological horror of Polanski.
July 25, 2016
an impressionistic allegory, fusing horror with shame, in which sex has debilitating health and social effects-especially, unfairly, for women.
August 08, 2016
It would spill over into silly if not for the delicate performance of Burdge, who brings a palpable fragility and anchors the film with her sensitive, intensely physical performance.
August 08, 2016
Lace Crater is sometimes a comedy, sometimes a horror film, but at its core is something bleaker than either genre is ordinarily willing to contemplate.
