Relic
(2020)
First screened in June 2025
Director: Natalie Erika James. Cast: Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote, Chris Bunton, Jeremy Stanford, Katherine Gladivic. Screenplay: Natalie Erika James and Christian White.
Photo © 1920 IFC Midnight/Carver
Films/Nine Stories Productions
In Brief:
"These interiors don’t match the house at all?" I carped during an otherwise gripping yarn. And then... Spindly and very sad.
VOR:
④
Inventive use of horror tropes to unpack baleful themes: mother-daughter alienation, dementia, codependency, etc. Tricksy and direct at once.
Grade:
B
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