Many films in a post-pandemic world have attempted to look at different aspects of mental health, with some succeeding better than others.
While Richard Burgin’s Fang isn’t a by-product of the pandemic completely, it does look at how relationships can become too close and how someone can become trapped under the same roof as their family with seemingly no way out.
Fang isn’t a full-blown drama, as it veers into trippy surrealist and body horror, as we follow Billy, a 20-something who is rather aimless, and has the added burden of being the sole family for his mother who is in the later stages of Parkinson’s.
When Billy starts growing tufts of rat hair after a chance encounter with a rodent, his life starts to spiral out of control with him and the audience not fully sure what’s real or not.
This is definitely not scare-a-minute, Fang has a slow burn quality that will appeal to some and maybe not to those after a fast pace and more action.
The central performances by Dylan La Ray as Billy and Lynn Lowry feel genuine and sincere, and you can really feel how this relationship is pretty much at breaking point when we arrive.
If you are looking for a more surreal, character-driven story Fang may be the one for you.
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