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Is it Horror? | The Zone of Interest (2023)

Is it Horror? | The Zone of Interest (2023)

It was with no small amount of excitement that I anticipated Glazer’s latest, ten years on from Under the Skin. The Zone of Interest is a German-language film set in Poland during World War II, as far from the sun-drenched Cockney mafia of Sexy Beast as you can get, and miles removed from the austere Manhattan winterscape of Birth. But that’s fitting for Glazer, whose work regularly defies categorization. After casting Natasha Romanoff as a man-devouring extraterrestrial prowling the streets of Glasgow, an adaptation of Martin Amis’ 2014 “zestfully profane, obscene, and scatological” best-seller seems as logical a move as any.