Australian horror flick The Moogai uses Indigenous trauma to fuel a new boogeyman

Australian horror flick The Moogai uses Indigenous trauma to fuel a new boogeyman

I’ve felt left behind in the general antipathy directed at horror films “based in trauma” as an excuse to wave away a whole swath of films from the last decade. Plenty of people I like and respect have started yawning at the predictable nature of what they see as a recent turn into every terror flick needing to explain how it is rooted in one character’s personal pain. This dismissal always seemed bizarre to me, considering that every horror fil…

Dark History and Evil Are Unearthed in “The Moogai”

Shari Sebbens attends the 2024 Sundance Film Festival “The Moogai” premiere at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Donayle West/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Stephanie Ornelas Most of us know of The Boogeyman. Well, director John Bell introduces us to something much more sinister…meet The Moogai.  Bell’s chilling Midnight premiere of the same name, which screened at The Ray Theatre on January 21 at the 2024 Sundance Film …