The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some initial thoughts on the new Steffen Haars and Nick Frost horror comedy, Get Away. “In the vacation horror comedy Get Away, an everyday British (and Irish) family goes on holiday on a remote Swedish island, Svälta, an island definitely full of folk horror possibility between a tragic history and strange folk traditions–including creepy masks and a fine set of moth, spider and opossum costumes. Death and more folk horror trails them from the small restaurant they stop at before catching a ferry to the island. They ignore warnings to stay away. They ignore what could be an omen in the form of a seagull with its head bitten off. They plan to stay in an AirBnB rented by a creepy man named Mats Larson for the island festival of Karantän, which commemorates when Svälta was quarantined during an influenza epidemic in the early 19th Century.”

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