“Wild Horse Nine” Made Me Cry
There is no aspect of this film that falls short, except perhaps in minor ways.

Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
There is no aspect of this film that falls short, except perhaps in minor ways.
When you think of the horror genre, the LGBTQ+ community is probably one of the last things you think of. However, horror is much more queer-coded than you may think.
In this coming-of-age movie centered around senior prom, Mandy is anxious about her acceptance into Harvard while she realizes she's missing other opportunities.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
If you mix religious rituals with dark mythology, the result will be effective, and the story powerful in 90% of the cases. That is exactly what happens at the beginning of The Vigil.
In 1971, when discussions about how to integrate their school system break down, the community of Durham, North Carolina agrees to bring in Bill Riddick(Babou Ceesay) to conduct a series of summits(charrettes) to help them move forward with desegregation.