Else review – pandemic-style horror has bad guys crawling out of the woodwork, literally

Thibault Emin’s thriller sees a new couple forced to barricade themselves in an apartment amid an outbreak in which the infected merge with their physical surroundings Heavily fermented films born from Covid claustrophobia are still coming out of the woodwork – quite literally in the case of this visually arresting Gallic number, in which two shut-ins find themselves under attack by an entity that has grown out of the wooden slats with which one of them has barricaded the apartment windows. T...

By Phil Hoad