Film Review – American Carnage

After the wild success of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” it seemed like a trend was about to be born, with other moviemakers hoping to ride coattails and put out their own take on social and politically attentive horror, empowered by the reality that audiences were growing more comfortable with the tonal mixture. Such a gold rush never really occurred, leaving “American Carnage” one of the few to follow Peele’s endeavor, with screenwriters Julio and Diego Hallivis (the latter directs the feature) hoping to make sense of Trump-era aggression toward immigrants and Hispanic communities by exaggerating such intense focus and hatred. The writing has interesting ideas to share about this unbearable hostility, and it uses genre filmmaking to take the battle of the border to a most bizarre extreme. “American Carnage” isn’t tightly edited, and it lacks a great deal of subtlety, but it handles with a passable macabre tone, doing something appreciably weird with real-world antagonism. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com