{"id":29461,"date":"2020-07-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hulus-into-the-dark-gets-presidential-with-the-disappointing-the-current-occupant\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:00:00","slug":"hulus-into-the-dark-gets-presidential-with-the-disappointing-the-current-occupant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hulus-into-the-dark-gets-presidential-with-the-disappointing-the-current-occupant\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hulu\u2019s \u2018Into the Dark\u2019 Gets Presidential With the Disappointing \u2018The Current Occupant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hulu\u2019s \u2018Into the Dark\u2019 Gets Presidential With the Disapp<\/a>ointing \u2018The Current Occupant\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series<\/a> titled <\/span><\/i>Into The Dark<\/i><\/b>, set to release a full holiday-themed feature every month. Horror anthology expert Matt Donato will be tackling the series one-by-one, stacking up the entries as they become streamable.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s fourth of July segment of <\/span>Into The Dark<\/i><\/b> was a fireworks display of nightmarish nationalism that distorted the \u201cAmerican Dream.\u201d Gigi Saul Guerrero\u2019s <\/span>Culture Shock<\/span><\/i> remains an anthology highlight, and frankly, not much across our country\u2019s political landscape has changed since its air-date. If anything? Times are direr, primed for even scarier horror exploitations, but <\/span>Julius Ramsay<\/b>\u2019s <\/span>The Current Occupant <\/i><\/b>doesn\u2019t achieve the same commentary or patriotic frights. At times, we\u2019re asked \u2013 purposeful or not \u2013 to sympathize with the President of the United States. Not something I\u2019m willing to stomach at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Cameron (<\/span>Barry Watson<\/b>) wakes up in a hospital\u2019s psychiatric ward in full belief that he\u2019s the elected leader of America. The wing\u2019s head physician Dr. Larson (<\/span>Sonita Henry<\/b>) assures Henry this couldn\u2019t be farther from the truth. She continually poses a question. What seems more likely? That the president would be imprisoned in a mental institution, or a patient convinces himself that he has the power to change the world? It\u2019s something Henry wrestles with, but as others in the facility promote his conspiracy theory, memories return. Although, can you trust someone who claims to be your Secretary of State when another \u201cally\u201d claims to be the Emperor (<\/span>Joshua Burge<\/b>) of an interstellar quadrant?<\/span><\/p>\n

At <\/span>The Current Occupant<\/span><\/i>\u2019s core, there\u2019s a damning message. Is anyone who deems themselves fit to run an entire nation sane? Writer <\/span>Alston Ramsay<\/b> uses experimental visual-shock therapy as a way for Dr. Larson to say the hush-hush things out loud. As Henry is strapped to a chair, forced to watch a series of rapid-fire clips that contain past presidents and fluorescent ink splotches, Dr. Larson asks him a series of questions. \u201cIs it fundamentally good to empower an individual over the masses? Is the governing principle of life love or survival?\u201d Both Ramsays dare to equate governmental bodies to inmates running the asylum, but it\u2019s never fully realized based on more generic representations.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a straightforward horror arc, <\/span>The Current Occupant<\/span><\/i> is rarely scary and struggles to contain any surprises. The suspense that should be drawn from crazed patients claiming they\u2019re cabinet members or hidden [redacted] files isn\u2019t anything more than asylum-paranoia basics. Orderlies play game<\/a>s with Henry\u2019s mind by whistling the presidential march theme, calling him \u201cChief,\u201d or planting American flags around his room. Although, that\u2019s about it? The entire entrapment narrative is never thought-out beyond Dr. Larson\u2019s in-your-face style of questioning that paints overruling leadership as a symptom of insanity. Not something I\u2019d actively disagree with, but Henry\u2019s imprisonment isn\u2019t all that nerve-wracking.<\/span><\/p>\n

The foils introduced into Henry\u2019s \u201cjourney\u201d are all somewhat directionless. Maybe it\u2019s \u201cThe Administrator\u201d (Ezra Buzzington), who watches from behind thick glass windows. Perhaps it\u2019s an undercover nurse who keeps appearing at random whenever Henry\u2019s thesis needs to be supported. The problem is that camera work always suggests something different when Henry encounters the latter character, not in a way that toys with our perception. We know where this is going. All the tie-dye graphic overlays atop interrogator\u2019s faces can\u2019t distract our senses (think Rorschach from <\/span>Watchmen<\/span><\/i>, but an introductory Adobe After Effects version with rainbow patterns). There\u2019s little that sets <\/span>The Current Occupant<\/span><\/i> apart from any other indie horror flick that includes padded rooms and not-all-that-complex mysteries of the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Henry continues his treatments, his line of questioning always ends with the same conclusion: \u201cIn an irrational world, anything is possible.\u201d In a more thought-out film, this quote would land a bit harder. Julius Ramsay begs us to break from tyrannical brainwashing that puts the United States above its citizens, but struggles to do so through an engaging genre lens. \u201cThe dream will never die if we believe in our country,\u201d monologued by a distraught Henry, is a line that rattled me to the core. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for <\/span>The Current Occupant <\/span><\/i>as an attack against perverse political elitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 5 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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