Is it Horror? “The Zone of Interest” (2023)

Eric Winick
5 min readFeb 23, 2024
An idyllic backyard scene from THE ZONE OF INTEREST (A24)

If you enjoy this piece, please check out the other entries in the Is It Horror? series, including my latest, on Red Dawn (1984)

Jonathan Glazer’s an interesting fellow. In twenty-four years, he’s made four features aside from countless commercials and music videos. His films have ranged from violent gangster comedy to metaphysical what-ifs to aliens walk among us horror. I count the…

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Eric Winick

Eric is a marketing consultant (winickmarketing.com) by day and cohost of the Scare U podcast (scareupod.com) by nights, weekends, and on Jewish holidays.