CFF 2022: THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN is an Atmospheric Slice of Folk Horror

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by Dan Tabor

My first film at this year’s Chattanooga Film Festival was Elise Finnerty’s feature length debut, the atmospheric little slice of folk horror The Ones You Didn’t Burn. The film is the story of a pair of adult siblings, Natan (Nathan Wallace) and MIrra (Jenna Rose Sander) who after the suicide of their father return to the farm where they were raised to settle their affairs and sell off the land. The crux of the narrative is Nathan, who is a recovering addict discovers the land was cursed when it was taken by his ancestors from a coven of witches — who possibly drove his father mad and appear to have their sights set on his sister.

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