Make Camelot Weird Again
How David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021) brings strange new meaning to an antique fantasy text. And, yes, it’s a Christmas movie. Fight me.
Bearing the seal of bleeding-edge studio A24, The Green Knight was trailered in 2021 as a dank, horror-tinged adaptation of a bygone fantasy text. Heads caught fire like they did in the studio’s 2018 shocker Hereditary. Gujarati-heritage heartthrob Dev Patel was daringly cast as King Arthur’s nephew Gawain, while the head-lopping Green Knight was rec…