Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you come to most of the time is that, while often adequately executed, they are simply not original enough to evoke any true feeling. From scene to scene, or sometimes, from frame to frame, you more or less know what to expect next, which traditionally makes it harder to be really excited about anything that happens on screen. Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Pathetic Fallacy, which premiered at Fantastic Fest and was recently shown at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival at one of their secret screenings, doesn’t have...
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