Hold Your Breath is an apt title for the new Hulu iteration starring Emmy award winner Sarah Paulson. This has a reference to its temporal and spatial setting (namely Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl period in the 1930s), but not very pleasantly disturbing, which is why you will start Hold Your Breath more and more, throughout this psychological horror-thriller. Karrie Crouse and William Joines directed Hold Your Breath, and even though the title may suggest otherwise, this movie is not a lighthearted affair. The gradual collapse that follows in the second half of the film, that if happening is bound to alienate some audiences, is played out rather well. But the cast will surely deliver and they have certainly done so in this low budget production that actually bothers to make some intelligent observations on global warming, disease intrusion and isolationism, etc.
After North Carolina flooding and so much discussion about global warming in this election year, it is easy to see why this would be an election turnoff. It is even more perplexing in that coming back hundred years is the pleasant way to put it: Hold Your Breath is almost one hundred years back ‘cluster bang’ the engine of progressive dust construction. Dust storms are disrupting the well-to-do citizens of this Oklahoma society as they live their lives.
With all these things endured, one would think more leisure time can be enjoyed. They are trapped in a Groundhog Day of eat, sleep, work , eat sleep while attending church in between which still makes the situation worse because a door closing is only a sigh of relief from the terrible howling that engulfs and eats away the dust filling as well as the conclusion drinking in. Storms, as on one such Appreciation Event, may suit the parameters of the setting despite their bleakness or still survive the episode. Also be depressed for the audience watching with respect to the use of Stills and Movement in Casablanca. It is inevitably in many conventional setups the ‘frenemy a source both of warmth and protection but also a source of distress as she stons her older secret mother Margaret who has been running from the heroine X herself whom we meet in every movie courted most by the heroic hero.
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For those people who find a concept such as a Christian family battling the forces of nature in the 1930s appealing, rest assured that Paulson, an American Horror Story and Ratched alum , returns to horror with Hold Your Breath. Apart from dealing with her overprotective intruding relatives like Esther (Annaleigh Ashford) who seem to be getting crazier and crazier, Margaret now faces a new problem, an uninvited so called pastor who introduces himself as Wallace Grady (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). To expariate, Wallace brings down along the token that questions Margaret’s hospitality, a coat owned by her husband which Wallace claims to be contemptouously lent to him by the husband, courtesy form Wallace. Hmmm…
Character traits and conflicts that Paulson’s vintage seeks out becomes familiar with include that of the insomnia stricken character with erratic sleep behavior the last time we met her (More recently imagine a Korean version titled Sleep). But when impending threat must literally knock at Margaret’s doorstep I wonder what her already battered mind is ready to expect. Perhaps it is not so, as Wallace is a healer – self-proclaimed but effective enough to stop the embarrassment of the nose bleed of Rose as soon as he appears. Or was it just a coincidence?
Margaret becomes more and more unclear of what is real and what is a product of her imagination while being violently territorial towards her family. For horror fans sitting in the right frame, violence which is at the beginning of the dish is inserted quite unnaturally near the end of the story. It is a trade off though as this is the part of Hold Your Breath that i guess makes the film loose sight on what it seeks to achieve by the end of the day. The movie reaches points of surfeit in trying to make the shift from a slow burn to a full blown climax.
The cast stays outstanding, however, for the entire time. Certainly, Paulson is an emotional volcano, and appropriately, the majority of the scenes are undertaken by her, or rather, for her. Other members of the cast will also be sure to earn appreciation. Viewers will enjoy trying to connect several of them as well. There is also Paulson’s American Crime Story: Impeachment co-star Ashford, who, after all the moving murders from the previous installment, as it turned out, finally, there are scenes with Paulson. Among them is The Bear co-star Moss-Bachrach, because in at least few scenes in FX Emmy winning second season there were Paulson’s memorable moments. It is about time as far as pacing goes since being brought to a more calm role like this is rather different for Moss-Bachrach, who usually is seen as more boisterous character.
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