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To see a single frame of an Adams Family film is to know you're witnessing something special and truly unique. There is a dark, visceral lyricism to their work that becomes increasingly apparent with every subsequent release. This visual language—a harmony of creative voices shared and developed between parents Toby Poser and John Adams, and daughter Zelda Adams (who have previously collaborated on films including 2021’s Hellbender and 2023’s Where the Devil Roams)—has never been stronger than in the opening moments of Mother of Flies, in which Poser, surrounded by ichor and ooze, writhes triumphantly among the viscera. It’s both erotic and grotesque, but the meeting point of the sacred and the profane is where these artists live and thrive, and it’s what makes their films equally hypnotic and challenging.