'The Incomer' Anthony Dickenson If Scotland’s Bill Forsyth ever made a folk-horror comedy — and there’s still time — it would look something like The Inccomer, a riff on his enduring 1983 classic Local Hero populated with characters that are clearly inspired by British comedy legends The League of Gentlemen, whose most famous duo, Tubbs and Edward, fiercely guard their remote grocery store, a local shop for local people. If these references mean nothing to you, then The Incomer probably won’t either, since, if we take Yorgos Lanthimos as the surreal master of cranking things up to 11, its mild weirdness only goes up to about five or six, seven tops. It does, however, fill a traditional spot in Sundance’s World Dramatic Competition, where it fits nicely alongside the eccentric likes of Eagle vs Shark (2007) and Brian and Charles (2022).
