Osgood Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel looks to continue the esthetic began with movies like The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015) and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House (2016) which is to say horror that is subtle and cares less about gore and jump scares than creating a mood and an atmosphere.

Perkins is a director in the vein–pardon the pun–or Ari Aster, who also makes horror that is more contemplative and concerned less with shocking you than creating an atmosphere that slowly draws you in.