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In the Tall Grass

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In the Tall Grass	comment	In the Tall Grass is a 2019 Canadian supernatural horror film and an adaptation of the novella of the same name by Stephen King and Joe Hill. The film was written and directed by Vincenzo Natali and premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 20th, 2019 before enjoying a wider release on Netflix on October 4th.Siblings Becky and Cal Demuth are two days into their drive to San Diego, with Becky six months pregnant. While stopping outside an old church, the pair hear a young boy shout for help from a nearby field of tall grass. They enter in an attempt to rescue the child, but as they venture deeper into the field, they begin to realize that something doesn't want them to leave...The film stars Laysla De Oliveira as Becky, Avery Whitted as Cal, Will Buie Jr. as Tobin, Patrick Wilson as Ross, Harrison Gilbertson as Travis, and Rachel Wilson as Natalie.Previews: Trailer
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In the Tall Grass / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
In the Tall Grass / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Travis touches the rock so he becomes one with the field. This allows him to send Tobin back in time to prevent the course of events that led to this, but he will have to remain in the grass.
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In the Tall Grass / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
In the Tall Grass / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: What Ross ends up doing to Natalie. In front of their son, no less.
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In the Tall Grass / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
In the Tall Grass / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: Those who touch the rock can become this.
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In the Tall Grass / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
In the Tall Grass / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: It comes with the territory of expanding a (relatively) short novella into an hour and a half movie.
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In the Tall Grass / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
In the Tall Grass / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Cal is not as nice as he appears at first. His niceness to his sister is genuine, but he's also jealous and possessive of her to the point of being murderous.
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In the Tall Grass / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
In the Tall Grass / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The RV full of hippies who are lured into the tall grass by Tobin's cries never show up by virtue of the Adaptational Alternate Ending.
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In the Tall Grass / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
In the Tall Grass / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Harrison Gilbertson does a pretty good job holding his accent but his Australian twang slips through occasionally in high-emotion moments.
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In the Tall Grass / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
In the Tall Grass / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: What all the characters are trapped in. Becky and Cal entered the maze because of Tobin's cries for help, then several months later Travis entered the maze to find them, then his cries for help end up causing Tobin and his family to enter the maze in the first place. At the end, Travis sends Tobin back in time to break the loop by preventing Becky and Cal from entering in the first place.
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In the Tall Grass / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
In the Tall Grass / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Travis. He's mentioned fleetingly in the novella, as Becky's Frat Bro ex-boyfriend, who ditches her when he finds out she's pregnant. Here, he comes looking for Becky and Cal and manages to save them and Tobin.
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In the Tall Grass / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
In the Tall Grass / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Travis leads Tobin out of the titular field and back to the past, where the boy is ultimately able to keep the past Becky and Cal from entering, breaking the loop. Becky decides to keep her baby, and the three end up driving back to Topeka to drop Tobin off at the police station. This comes at the cost of Travis dying in the field (although another Travis presumably still exists safe in his home due to time shenanigans), which is still ready to claim more victims when the time comes.
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In the Tall Grass / int_4a8d9d4d	type	Non Sequitur Environment
In the Tall Grass / int_4a8d9d4d	comment	Non Sequitur Environment: Tobin is transported in a jump cut from the depths of the field to a spooky-looking room as a result of Travis using the power of the Rock at the center of the field to teleport him out. To his immense relief, Tobin soon discovers he's actually in the Creepy Cathedral across the road from the field - before Cal and Becky entered it - allowing him an opportunity to save them both.
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In the Tall Grass / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
In the Tall Grass / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Unlike the much happier ending to the film, Cal and Becky are both trapped in the tall grass, with Tobin and Ross, forever, and whatever happens to them is left ambiguous.
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In the Tall Grass / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
In the Tall Grass / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: A brief little diatribe from Ross right before the second Wham Shot listed below reveals exactly how the film departs from the source material. After Becky finishes eating the "grass", she has a revelation.
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In the Tall Grass / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
In the Tall Grass / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Becky has a sudden vision of Ross standing in the middle of the field, his arms outstretched and his eyes completely covered with grass. Just to drive the point home, it's also punctuated with flashes of the grass-faced people. Cal sees his own dead body lying in the grass. Then, as Ross slowly throttles him to death, we pan out to reveal another dead Cal across from that... and another, much more decayed version of that... and a skeleton across from that...
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In the Tall Grass / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
In the Tall Grass / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Cal is revealed to be this. Not long after Travis accuses him of having incestuous feelings for his sister, Travis slips and almost falls into a hole. Cal catches him, but then lets go of his hand and drops him, and later tells his sister (who didn't see him do it) to forget about Travis and that he loves her.
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In the Tall Grass / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
In the Tall Grass / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Averted in one of the loops, but then played straight at the end when Tobin breaks the loop.
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In the Tall Grass / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
In the Tall Grass / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The grass field is sentient.
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In the Tall Grass / int_59619fac	type	Head Crushing
In the Tall Grass / int_59619fac	comment	Head Crushing: If it wasn't obvious enough that touching the black rock in the grass has changed Ross into something... else, he emphasizes it by crushing Natalie's skull with his bare hands.
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In the Tall Grass / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
In the Tall Grass / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: A group of hippies camp out near the grass and are lured in by Tobin's voice.
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In the Tall Grass / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
In the Tall Grass / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Cal is accused of fetishizing this by Travis. Given what Cal does to him soon after, he's probably right.
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In the Tall Grass / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
In the Tall Grass / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Ross is implied to have been transformed by the rock; not only can he navigate the field in spite of its space-warping properties, but he can crush a human skull with his bare hands and batter his way through the barricaded doors with relative ease. The same goes for Travis after he touches the rock; quite apart from the fact that the sequence shows grass growing inside his body, but he also manages to transport Tobin into the church so he can head Cal and Becky off at the field entrance. Also, those grass-faced things that capture Becky and deliver her to the rock; it's impossible to tell if they're long-term inhabitants of the field or something truly inhuman that were born beneath the rock.
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In the Tall Grass / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
In the Tall Grass / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: After grabbing Becky, Ross makes it quite obvious that he plans to rape her after forcing her to touch the rock.
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In the Tall Grass / int_93489cfd	type	Botanical Abomination
In the Tall Grass / int_93489cfd	comment	Botanical Abomination: The grass field as a whole is implied to be some sort of incomprehensibly alien superorganism that has existed since the dawn of time. It actively messes with both time and space and wants to assimilate human travelers into itself. Also, at different points it manifests itself as humanoid monstrosities made of grass.
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In the Tall Grass / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
In the Tall Grass / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Ross still keeps up his mild-mannered form of chit-chat, even as he's slaughtering people left and right.
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In the Tall Grass / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
In the Tall Grass / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The grass. There's seemingly no way out, it can manipulate time, it's sentient and there's something very unpleasant going on beneath the rock at the center of the field.
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In the Tall Grass / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
In the Tall Grass / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: From Becky and Tobin's perspective, they've been wandering the grass for two days. From Travis' perspective, it's been closer to two months. Although, considering that the field moves people through time and we already saw him go back and lure Tobin's family in, he might actually have gone back to that day.
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In the Tall Grass / int_acb8aa6	type	Familial Cannibalism Surprise
In the Tall Grass / int_acb8aa6	comment	Familial Cannibalism Surprise: Ross ends up tricking Becky into eating her own baby.
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In the Tall Grass / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
In the Tall Grass / int_ad1db87c	comment	Becky has a sudden vision of Ross standing in the middle of the field, his arms outstretched and his eyes completely covered with grass. Just to drive the point home, it's also punctuated with flashes of the grass-faced people.
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In the Tall Grass / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
In the Tall Grass / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: The maze inside the tall grass is not bound by the laws of physics and can change constantly. This is visually demonstrated when Becky and Cal try to find each other by jumping up simultaneously. The first time, they're about ten yards apart. The second time, despite not having moved, it's suddenly a hundred yards.
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In the Tall Grass / int_c3ab9165	type	Tuneless Song of Madness
In the Tall Grass / int_c3ab9165	comment	Tuneless Song of Madness: Ross merrily belts out "Midnight Special" while stalking Becky and the others into the abandoned bowling alley.
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In the Tall Grass / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
In the Tall Grass / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Ross says he's found a way out of the grass and promises to lead Becky, Cal, Travis, and the rest of his family out. Then, he takes them to the rock and things go downhill from there.
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In the Tall Grass / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
In the Tall Grass / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: When he first enters the grass maze, Travis tries to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find his way back by tying pieces of long grass into knots. As soon as he's out of sight, the grass undoes the knot.
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In the Tall Grass / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
In the Tall Grass / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Nothing about the grass is learned for sure; the only thing that's definite is that it moves people around. Cal speculates that the people in the surrounding houses sacrifice people to the tall grass, but this is never confirmed.
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In the Tall Grass / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
In the Tall Grass / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Ross is prone to this. It starts when he says that he found a way out of the field, but he didn't leave because he is still looking for his wife and son, and offers to show the way out. All technically true, the rock is the only way out, but only if you use it to help someone else, since it will make you unable to leave the field, and Ross wants to have them all trapped, never saying he would have left the field after finding his family. The other, weirder example is when he feeds Becky her baby telling her it's "grass and seeds", since the rock and whoever touches it considers grass and flesh to be the same thing. The Church of the Black Rock of the Redeemer presumably is not consecrated to 'Christ the Redeemer' but the redemption offered by the rock.
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In the Tall Grass / int_ee1c6326	type	Mobile Maze
In the Tall Grass / int_ee1c6326	comment	Mobile Maze: The grass maze is constantly changing itself to frustrate travelers. Not just through space, but through time as well.
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In the Tall Grass / int_efe63dcf	type	Creepy Cathedral
In the Tall Grass / int_efe63dcf	comment	Creepy Cathedral: There's an abandoned, dilapidated church opposite the grass maze called the Church of the Black Rock of the Redeemer. When Travis investigates, he finds a closed door at the back. It later turns out to be an exit portal from the maze, although one can only access it by becoming one with the black rock.
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In the Tall Grass / int_f0e340fd	type	Lost in the Maize
In the Tall Grass / int_f0e340fd	comment	Lost in the Maize: The protagonists are lost in a maze of the titular tall grass.
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In the Tall Grass / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
In the Tall Grass / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Tobin in the early versions of the time loop when Cal and Travis meet him; by this time, he's been completely broken by everything that's happened to him and has actually touched the rock, so he's almost on the same level of disturbing as Ross.
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In the Tall Grass / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
In the Tall Grass / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: The rock in the center of the field. Though it shows victims how to get out, it also makes it so they never want to leave.
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