Rose Glass’s debut feature is a deeply dark and frequently painful-to-watch horror movie that has one thing on its mind – how the road to fanaticism leads directly to hell
SAINT MAUD Will (Finally) Be Available in the US on February 12th!
SAINT MAUD Will (Finally) Be Available to Stream in the US on February 12th! By Josh Millican
News broke earlier today that A24’s religious horror movie
Saint Maude will finally be available to US audiences on February 12th. The film was originally slated for release in 2020 (April 3rd to be exact); when it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was unclear when (or even if) the film would ever have an official debut.
Now, we’re hearing that
Saint Maud will be available exclusively on
Film Shorts // February 3-9, 2021
Son of the South (PG-13) Based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography, this drama stars Lucas Till as a 1960s Southerner who rejects his family’s deep history with the Ku Klux Klan to join the civil rights movement. Also with Lucy Hale, Sienna Guillory, Julia Ormond, Jake Abel, Cedric the Entertainer, and Brian Dennehy. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
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Dara of Jasenovac (R) This Serbian film stars Biljana Ćekić as a Croatian girl sent to an infamous Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Also with Vuk Kostić, Marko Janketić, Igor Đorđević, Nastaša Ninković, Bojan Źirović, and Sanja Moravčić. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Morfydd Clarke in Saint Maud
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Directed by Rose Glass. Starring Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, Rosie Sansom and Turlough Convery. Out on Blu-ray/ DVD/ VOD from Studiocanal. Running time: 84 mins.
In horror film terms, Maud (Clark) is both Regan and Father Karras; the possessed child and the exorcist.
A recent trauma has seen her retreat from hospital nursing and become gripped by religious fervour. Amanda (Ehle) is a terminally ill former choreographer and dancer now stuck in a wheelchair with stage 4 lymphoma, who doesn t believe there is a maker to meet and is scared of the prospect of nothingness.