braying cow

I found this ghost story to be slow and boring. I didn’t read the novella, so I’m reviewing the movie solely on its own merits; I’m not comparing it to the source material. If the book was a slow-burn and more of a moody piece that really hammers “you reap what you sow”, then 1922 is faithful to its source. It’s really tough to care about any of the characters (ok, maybe one of the cows) and the story is pretty thin. That said, if you like dilapidated farmhouses, corn fields, dads with gravelly voices, tropes in which farmers do everything to keep their land *and* are creeped out by rats then this is the film for you.