The Big Smoke Review

The Yellow Wallpaper Turns a Feminist Text into a Psychological Horror Film

As a movie, The Yellow Wallpaper is beautiful. The crawling-and-sprawling cinematography of Sonja Tsypin manages to make even the eye-poppingly bright color palette seem creepy. Robert J. Coburn’s sparse, The Shining-lite score lets the skillful sound design of Ed Jakober take the lead, mixing music seamlessly with the ambient sounds of running water or the rhythm of things-that-go-bump-in-the-night. And Alexandra Loreth turns in a borderline brilliant performance as the film’s heroine.

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