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
bleak, harrowing, gutwrenching. awesome movie, absolutely worth your time. those last five minutes? whack
Reading some of the reviews authored by no doubt younger viewers I must agree with Dirtbagriff. But more than media studies American schools need to teach humanities, art, and music. So many young people do not understand the depths of creativity and the language of art. Their pop music is vapid. The movies they "like" are shallow and driven by cheap devices like special effects and "action. " And they have no deeper understanding of art than as an escape from reality, a background for gaming, or something to bounce up and down to to an unending 4/4 beat at an Ecstasy-fueled-pablum-dance at some desert "festival. " Sad.
What they were going for in this film is great but the execution just doesn't hit the mark at times. Still worth your time.
Straight up black mold and mental illness
This move was more sad than scary. This was about aging and children becoming the caretaker of a parent. There were too many plot holes for me. What happened to the grandpa? What was up with the creepy cabin? Did the window from the cabin have anything to do with what was happening to the old woman? Why did she turn at the end? Was it all just symbolism? I didn't like this movie, but the acting was good so I gave it 2 skulls.