The Rows (2025) Review: Frightfest 2025 Cinemax
★★★ 1/2 of ★★★★★
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Directed and written by Seth Daly
A first intense act, almost without dialogue, launches the start of Seth Daly’s feature film at the helm. Daly sets up a story that mixes murder and the very mysterious.
Official synopsis
Lucy, seven years old, wakes up in the middle of a mysterious cornfall. She has a bloody injury on her head and no memory of how she arrived. Discovering a corpse and an abandoned pistol in a nearby clearing, she is immediately confronted with three masked searches for research. Deadly cat and mouse games follow, while Lucy tries to escape the gang while looking for an apparently endless corn release. With the falling night and the bad guys get closer, Lucy fights to stay alive. . . Helped by his family dog and the strange golden creature that lives in the rows.
Review: Fear-Fare Fanatics will want to visit this cornfield
Do you know these gender films where a young child has physical and mental means to escape at least some of their murderous adults? The character of Lucytake seven years at a completely different level The rowsThe first writer Seth Daly, the confident beginnings at the head of a feature film. (Brindisi Dupree in a fun and wonderfully rendered performance.) Fortunately for Lucy, she learned a lot of her time playing video games.
Daly means that viewers wonder through a first act practically without dialogue to explain why masked men hunt a little girl through a field of corn, intended to kill her. Then, the plot throws in a curve that even the fanatics of the most experienced scary film would not expect. The second act contains the most dialogue in the film and gives viewers a story. I will leave the third act as a surprise for new viewers.
Daly takes daring risks with The rowsAnd largely they bear fruit. He maintains a solid suspense with his non -linear narrative approach, mixing the masked marauder and the elements of invasion of domicile with the possibility of the supernatural.
Some viewers may wish more concrete answers than the film. However, I was very satisfied with what should be wondering. Give the ambiguity and go for the journey – or in this case, the race – with The rows.
Review by Joseph Perry
The rows Had his international international in Frightfest on August 25. The lines are assessed R for violence and bloody content.
