https://vo.rs/tags/psychedelia/Latest from the Psychedelia desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/a-field-in-england-wheatleys-monochrome-bad-trip/<p>Ben Wheatley&rsquo;s <em>A Field in England</em> (2013) is the film he made when nobody could stop him, and you can feel that freedom in every frame. Shot in twelve days, in black and white, for very little money, released the same day across cinemas, television, DVD and video-on-demand in a distribution stunt that Film4 dressed up as an experiment, it is the most purely formal thing Wheatley has done. There is a hedge, a field, a rope, some mushrooms, and five men in seventeenth-century clothes who walk into the frame sane and stagger out of it wrecked. That is nearly the whole plot. The film is a machine for turning an English meadow into hell.</p>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000