The Blazing World

Name: The Blazing World
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: October 15, 2021
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 33
Cast: Bailey Lewis, Breckyn Hager, Carlson Young, Dermot Mulroney, John Karna

2021

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: October 15, 2021 | NR

Starring: Bailey Lewis, Breckyn Hager, Carlson Young, Dermot Mulroney, John Karna, Liz Mikel, Soko, Sophia Bernard, Udo Kier, Vinessa Shaw

Summary: Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman (Carlson Young) returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Through an epic journey down the darkest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closerDecades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman (Carlson Young) returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Through an epic journey down the darkest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.… Expand

Director: Carlson Young

Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Romance

Rating: NR

Runtime: 101 min

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Lorry Kikta

Oct 15, 2021

The visual effects are haunting, the costume design by Juliana Hoffpauir is delightfully fanciful, particularly for Shaw’s scenes as a nameless masked demon. The cinematography from veteran cinematographer Shane F. Kelly is a sight to behold. Basically, The Blazing World is gorgeous. It’s also incredibly well written by Peirce Brown and Young. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Oct 15, 2021

It’s an imperfect debut, but it holds thrilling promise for what comes next. Read full review

Sarah Jane

Oct 14, 2021

Overstuffed and overextended, The Blazing World is buoyed by the soundtrack (especially the songs by Isom Innis and Sean Cimino in their project Peel), and the too brief appearance by the wonderful Soko. In the end, the film tries too hard. Read full review

The Playlist Beatrice Loayza

Oct 15, 2021

As the film builds up to its climax, we realize Young’s understanding of mental illness lacks any real depth or complexity, betraying the artist’s limited worldview. The Blazing World is female trauma in the form of an amusement park funhouse. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Oct 15, 2021

Ambitious but tediously precious, sincerely conceived but derivatively realized, The Blazing World throws an ornate heap of production design at an anemically scripted psychological metaphor, and counts on a combination of fairy dust and sheer determined nerve to make the whole contraption fly. Read full review

Slashfilm Chris Evangelista

Oct 15, 2021

Young does her best to carry this all on her shoulders, and while she nails her early scenes playing up Margaret's instability, she eventually gets lost among all the scenery and abundant production design. Never quite as surreal as it needs to be, The Blazing World is an exercise in dream logic that stumbles over itself again and again. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Oct 18, 2021

The Blazing World falls short narratively and visually, not leaning hard enough into its stylistic possibilities to leave an impression past its opening credits. It’s fantasy for the sake of therapy, and there’s no romance or joy here in imagining a better realm. Read full review

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MattBrady99

Feb 9, 2022

Carlson Young, the director, writer, and actor of her own movie: OMG, so brilliant, so deep. So artistic. A work of genius!

The acting was terrible, the visual homages to those 1970’s zoom in shots were done so poorly, and the movie has that irritating attitude to itself that it’s approveCarlson Young, the director, writer, and actor of her own movie: OMG, so brilliant, so deep. So artistic. A work of genius!

The acting was terrible, the visual homages to those 1970’s zoom in shots were done so poorly, and the movie has that irritating attitude to itself that it’s approve anything else, which made my viewing experience so painful. While the production design and overall look of the movie was decent, but sadly it was all wasted on nonsense. As I said in my review for Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (and I think it’s appropriate repeating here), if cancer was pretentious, it'd be ‘The Blazing World’.… Expand

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