Umma
Year: 2022
Studio: Raimi Productions, Stage 6 Films, Starlight Media
Director: Iris K. Shim
Cast: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi
Crew: Cheng Yang (Executive Producer), Yedong Mu (Executive Producer), Zhou Tao (Executive Producer), André Øvredal (Executive Producer), Lee Yong-ok (Production Design), Kyle Davio (Set Dresser)
Runtime: 83 minutes
Release: Mar 18, 2022
IMDb: 5.34/10 by 304 users
Popularity: 4
Country: United States of America
Language: English, 한국어/조선말
Budget: 3,000,000
Revenue: 2,100,000

This shares many problems that I hear people calling out IT COMES AT NIGHT for having. It doesn't flesh out its themes substantially, lacks scene-to-scene momentum and overall narrative drive, unprompted horror sequences with no apparent purpose, etc. I think this just needed a more concrete plot and more scenes with the central duo actually interacting (COVID-19 restrictions maybe caused a lack of this?). It is disappointing and a bit of a slog, but not without some good vision behind it. Some of the horror sequences utilize imagery and blocking in a pretty great way, and the scenes centered on Fivel Stewart's character have a much clearer sense of tone and purpose.