A horror story spun from the delusions of the faithful
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85 minutes, rated MA, selected cinemas
Horror filmmakers may not often be true believers, but they tend to be interested in religion: it is, after all, the competition. For those who do believe, no mere movie could be as frightening as the reality of an all-powerful God. Except, perhaps, the opposite: a world where this God has vanished, or was never more than delusion.
Morfydd Clark in Saint Maud
A compact and effective debut from the British writer-director Rose Glass,
Saint Maud portrays one such person of faith – though it might be taken at first for another sort of story, in which two contrasting women prove to be somehow mirror images.
A horror story spun from the delusions of the faithful
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