A masterful depiction of creeping dread that evokes the real horror of the intensifying assault on reproductive freedom in the US.
— Jenn Adams
Directed by
K PONTUTI
Starring
ALEXANDRA LORETH
JOE MULLINS
JEANNE O’CONNOR
CLARA HARTE
MARK O’CONNOR
The debut film from creative duo Alexandra Loreth and K Pontuti is a chilling and boldly original vision of madness.
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she must free.
2022 // 99 MINS
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman created feminist fireworks the moment it appeared in the January 1892 edition of the New England Magazine.”
— Kathryn Hughs, THE GUARDIAN
Alexandra Loreth gives a great performance of a woman who may very well be one of the best written women in American literature. Her changing moods throughout show a range which fully encapsulates the role and keeps the audience captivated by her.
— Joel Fischer
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, the movie, should become a cult classic and be appreciated by generations to come, as the short story has been….the film shows that horror doesn’t need monsters, vampires or other creatures to exist. The real horror may be being a woman in a patriarchal society.
— Letícia Magalhães
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER is a timeless classic. Written in 1892, the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has been recognized as a fundamental modernist feminist text that uses Gothic horror to highlight the suppression of women, and specifically the treatment of female mental health issues at the time.
— Kirk Lake
In the last three years, though, this seminal text has taken on a renewed urgency. “The Yellow Wallpaper” speaks directly to our #MeToo moment.
— Gail Marshall, Professor
