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- 2018
- Ari Aster
- 122 mins
- 15
Summary
Horror starring Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne. Following the death of their reclusive grandmother, the Graham family experiences an escalating series of terrifying events.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Jeremy Aspinall
A miasma of menace engulfs an unsuspecting American family when a fearful legacy comes home to roost in this terrific tale of terror. Following the death of the reclusive mother of miniaturist model-maker Annie Graham (Toni Collette), Annie's husband (Gabriel Byrne) and two children (Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro) find themselves beset by all sorts of unnerving weirdness - birds crashing into windows, ethereal apparitions, a desecrated grave, alarming premonitions - but that is only the start of the nightmare. In an audacious slow-burn horror, the Grahams' spacious hillside house - assiduously, almost ghoulishly, reproduced by Annie in her workroom - becomes as much a character as the frazzled and fraught quartet within. The cast is first-rate, with Collette just marvellous as the incumbent matriarch, agonisingly switching between grieving and screaming at any given moment. Though hailed as a 21st-century successor to The Exorcist, director Ari Aster's scintillating debut is more akin to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with a precision-tooled, dread-inducing atmosphere that refuses to loosen its grip.
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rolenameAnnie GrahamToni ColletteSteve GrahamGabriel ByrnePeter GrahamAlex WolffCharlie GrahamMilly ShapiroJoanAnn DowdBridgetMallory Bechtel
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Entertainment
Released on
2018-06-15
Languages
English | Spanish
Guidance
Violence, swearing, drug abuse, nudity
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DVD and Blu-ray
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Colour
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