‘The Wind’: Director Emma Tammi Discusses Her Debut Western-Horror Film [Podcast]

A prairie horizon is a paradox. Appreciate its vastness in the right light and it feels like anything’s possible. Lose a little of that light, feel the temperature drop five degrees, and nothing is.

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The landscapes of Emma Tammi’s “The Wind” (out now from IFC Films) do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to the film’s existential terror. Lizzy (Caitlin Gerard) is a homesteader virtually imprisoned by the mid-19th-century movement westward. Subsisting in a one-room cottage with her husband Isaac (Ashley Zukerman), Lizzy begins to find her already claustrophobic world corrupted by the arrival of a second pioneer couple and some occult literature, namely a pamphlet guide to the “Demons of the Prairie.”

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In the podcast interview below, Tammi discusses directing her first horror film after discovering the grandeur of the American West while making documentaries. Working in a minimalist space, Tammi also recounts the intensive editing, live animal wrangling, and gender-driven dread that went into making a horror movie out of four people, two shacks, and a skyline.

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