Relic
Directed by Natalie Erika James
When elderly mother Edna, inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family's decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay's concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she's been causes both to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her.
A mother and granddaughter sense an insidious presence is taking hold in this celebrated and unsettling psychological horror.
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin
Member Reviews
creepy. gross. good suspense. some fun body horror. a gem of a generational horror flick.
Uses symbolism for the decay of the mind and the bleak reminder that genetics are unfair. The house is your mind with cognitive disease. You get lost and are confused. It plays more as a sad movie because, as a horror, it's mild. Reminder, dont hit your cognitively diminishing loved ones with pipes and abandon them.
A good effort that humiliates itself at moments with jumpy cameras and blurry shots. It would be better to not sink to that level and have more self-respect.
On a non horror site maybe a 3. On shudder its a 2. Horror movies not sad movies.
bleak, harrowing, gutwrenching. awesome movie, absolutely worth your time. those last five minutes? whack