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Irish director Ivan Kavanagh s U.S.-set feature is an interesting but uneasy mix of supernatural horror and earnest drama.
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Director: Ivan Kavanagh
With: Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm, Cranston Johnson, Blaine Maye, J Robert Spencer, Rocco Sisto, Kristine Nielsen, Erin Bradley Dangar, Adam Stephenson, David Kallaway.
Running time: Running time: 98 MIN.
RLJE Films
Most parents have the odd stressful moment when they jokingly wonder if they’re raising a devil’s spawn. Unfortunately for Andi Matichak, that notion seems neither humorous nor hyperbolic in “Son,” wherein the star of David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” reboot has a more “Rosemary’s Baby”-ish problem on her hands.
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The upcoming film, penned by the director himself, has been described as âa bold and unnerving character-driven horror film, in the vein of
Hereditary,
The Babadookâ. In detail, we will follow Laura (
Andi Matichak), a mother who, after escaping from a cult as a child, must face her past when its sinister members break into her home and attempt to steal her eight-year-old son, David (
Luke David Blumm). Now the two are on the run, pursued by Paul (
Emile Hirsch), a detective determined to save them both. Since his aborted kidnapping, something has changed in David, and the boy has succumbed to a mysterious illness. Following her maternal instincts to save him, his mother commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive but is losing the battle. Soon, she has to decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Other members of the main cast are
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