10/6/2026
The Green Room

The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’

Filed by Vivien Star
The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’
Film-makers Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s new short is an unvarnished portrait of ICE-occupied MinneapolisGet Out. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Purge. All three films build on an august tradition of using horror as a Trojan horse to comment on the social, political and racial anxieties of their day. They’re Here, a new documentary featured in this year’s New York film festival, flips the script. Directed by Rachel Lauren Mueller, a film-maker and journalist, and Laura Poitras, Ac
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The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’ — The Green Room