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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

A mum's angst over her child being mysteriously replaced is the throbbing heart of director Lee Cronin's haunting Irish thriller. After a memorably disorientating opening, his stylish feature debut follows now-single Sarah (a terrific Seana Kerslake) as she decamps with son Chris to a farmhouse in the backwoods of Ireland. But a brooding air of trepidation and menace seeps into Sarah's new start after the discovery of a gigantic sinkhole in a nearby forest. Any similarity to the mouth of hell is of course purely coincidental. So, when Chris goes on a nocturnal walkabout and returns not quite seeming himself, allied to Sarah's encounter with a batty local woman (Kati Outinen) and her husband (James Cosmo), a terrifying suspicion begins to churn away. But is she going mad or has Chris really gone bad, just because he scoffs the odd spider? This slow-burning chiller teases out both possibilities effectively, though the subterranean climax is tellingly not so out of the ordinary.

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Credits

Cast

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Sarah O'NeillSeana Kerslake
Chris O'NeillJames Quinn Markey
Des BradyJames Cosmo
Noreen BradyKati Outinen
Louise CaulSimone Kirby
Rob CaulSteve Wall

Crew

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DirectorLee Cronin

Details

Theatrical distributor
Vertigo
Released on
2019-03-01
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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