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Prayer breaks into terror in âSaint Maudâ
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated February 10, 2021, 11:44 a.m.
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Morfydd Clark in Saint Maud. A24 Films via AP
If there were ever a case of a stellar directing debut more poorly treated in the marketplace than âSaint Maud,â Iâd like to hear about it. A startling psychological horror story with a breakout performance by Welsh actress Morfydd Clark, the film was the talk of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, got snapped up by indie distributor A24, and then saw its theatrical release scotched by the pandemic. It opened in mostly-empty movie houses last month (none in Boston) and finally comes to video on demand this week â exclusively on the EPIX subscription streaming platform. Thus the Balkanization of content prompted by the streaming platform wars punishes audiences and filmmakers alike.
Contagion soared in popularity, as the world went into lockdown. Now, the director has revealed that he’s working on a “philosophical” sequel to the 2011 pandemic film, with original screenwriter Scott Z. Burns.
“I’ve got a project in development that Scott Burns is working with me on, that’s a kind of philosophical sequel to
Contagion, but in a different context,” says Soderbergh, on the
Happy Sad Confused podcast. “You’ll kind of look at the two of them as kind of paired, but very different hair colors.”
While making the connection, Soderbergh notes that the new film won’t be a sequel “in a literal sense”. It’s unlikely to share characters with the original, for example. “Scott and I were talking about, what’s the next iteration of a