[Salem Horror Festival] ‘Brightwood’ Review — Time-loop horror wears its subtext on its sleeve

A review of the new horror film, at the Salem Horror Festival now

Eric Langberg
Everything’s Interesting
4 min readApr 26, 2023

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About halfway through Brightwood, when I felt like I had a pretty good grasp on what was happening, I wondered whether the movie was based on a short. Sure enough, writer/director Dane Elcar

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Eric Langberg
Everything’s Interesting

Interests: bad horror movies, queering mainstream films, Classic Hollywood.