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Scott Teems

A collection of 3 posts
The Quarry: murder, scripture, and Southern Gothic style
Film Review

The Quarry: murder, scripture, and Southern Gothic style

Set in a world rich with echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy, The Quarry's story of a fake preacher and a violent sheriff raises hard questions about the possibility of redemption in a world as ruined as this one.
20 Jul 2020 9 min read
Life in the Dark
On Movies & Media

Life in the Dark

I opened the new film issue of Image today, which was edited by cinephile Gareth Higgins and Rectify writer/director Scott Teems, and I was immediately caught up in a complicated conflict regarding one of my favorite filmmakers: Robert Bresson. In the essay called "Necessary Images," Teems writes,
17 Jul 2017 2 min read
Scott Teems

From "Sinister" to Stephen King

Deadline reports that Scott Derrickson, enjoying the success of his new horror film Sinister (here's my review), is moving to direct a film based on a Stephen King novella called Breathing Method. The adaptation was written by Scott Teems (That Evening Sun). What's it about? Different
15 Oct 2012 1 min read
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