ACT OF FAITH
I’m not sure what I think about the phrase ‘elevated horror’ – I think it sounds a bit snobby,” muses Rose Glass, whose directorial debut Saint Maud is “elevated horror” concentrated. “But I quite like it, I don’t know…”
She shouldn’t be so modest. Her intense character study of a religious zealot nursing a glamorous older woman through her dying days is certainly not for kids. By which we mean it’s sophisticated, intelligent and thought-provoking – and ultimately all the more terrifying for it.
It’s one part odd-couple black comedy (notes abound of the gothic melodrama of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?), one part nerveshredding psychological thriller, and all parts gross-out horror thrill ride.
The film stars a wry, charismatic Jennifer Ehle as former
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