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
Religion and horror are hardly novel bedfellows, but writer-director Rose Glass crafts something fresh out of the construct in her promising debut “Saint Maud.” The film follows the psychological undoing
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – John and the Hole
Directed by Pascual Sisto.
SYNOPSIS:
While exploring the neighbouring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker – a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.
Pascual Sisto’s directorial debut
John and the Hole offers up a twisted, polarity-reversed take on Home Alone minced through the chilly, darkly comic nihilism of Yorgos Lanthimos, testing not only the nature of parent-child relationship dynamics but also the audience’s capacity for mannered, often unexplained strangeness.
spoilers from Saint Maud, including the ending.
Horror as a genre is preoccupatied with female sexuality, and often this leads to rather tired and sexist tropes, which isn t surprising in a male-dominated genre. In Rose Glass feature directorial debut, she pushes against these expectations with the unsettling new psychological thriller she wrote, Saint Maud.
The film stars Morfydd Clark as Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse who becomes obsessed with saving the immortal soul of her dying patient, Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a famous dancer and choreographer who has retired to the shore of a resort town for the final months of her life. Maud s transformation throughout the film plays with many familiar genre elements – religion, sexuality, and physical trauma – in unexpected ways that elevates the film.
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