Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead believe the truth is out there. They’re just not certain we’ll ever find it.“All our films are trying to pull back the veil in some way,” Moorhead tells Inverse. “For us, that’s the most important question. And it’s also funny because we all are 99.9 percent sure this most important question can’t be answered.”Restlessly singular independent filmmakers whose trippily imaginative genre output was turning heads and melting minds long before they started landing bigger gigs — including directing episodes of Marvel’s Moon Knight and Loki’s upcoming second season — the duo grasps more than most the thrill of an unsolved mystery.That’s why, ever since their ironically titled 2012 debut feature Resolution, a meta-horror corkscrew about two friends at a cabin in the woods, all the duo’s films — including their latest, Something in the Dirt — have leapt boldly through ripples in reality, confronting strange and dreadful forces lurking outside our comprehension. From Spring, a surreal Lovecraftian romance about a man who falls for an immortal entity, to The Endless, a brain-bending paranormal puzzler involving a UFO cult, and Synchronic, in which a designer drug dislodges users from linear time, Benson and Moorhead’s sci-fi delights…
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Meet Marvel’s next dynamic duo: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead might just break your brain