OUT NOW SHUDDER
From shocking opening to twisty climax, this) is a class act. Christmas Eve, 1971: misfit pupils Samantha (Madison Baines) and Clara (Georgia Acken) and their teacher Rose (Chloë Levine) are stuck at boarding school over the holidays when a murderous, Manson-like cult headed by Jude (Mena Massoud) and former student Maisie (Olivia Scott Welch) breaks in. What follows riffs on familiar home-invasion themes, but Wexler and Sean Redlitz’s excellent script conjures laughs and bursts of poignancy amid all the bloodletting.
