O’Brien has made an intensely intimate supernatural film that feels like it was directed for the stage. “Be careful what you wish for,” one character warns Frederic. One night, Frederic, a former priest, hears a noise outside their home, and there he finds an injured young man named Aaron (O’Brien) who says he’s lost.īut it turns out that Aaron’s destination was their home all along, and he’s on an unearthly spiritual mission with Frederic in his sights. The film opens as Frederic (Henry Czerny) and Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) mourn the death of their young adopted daughter.
What happens when trauma shows up at your front door with a handsome face? That’s the question that drives this compelling Canadian indie from the writer, director and actor Mark O’Brien. For a vulgar bonus, don’t miss Hardy’s rap during the credits. The film has divided horror fans over the question of whether or not Hardy shares her character’s conservative opinions, and if it should matter. Your tolerance for Annie the character - an obnoxious American troll - will depend on your tolerance for Hardy herself I enjoyed her buffoonery and hated her character’s selfish politics. It’s a raucous counterpoint to the stillness that made “Host” so effectively disturbing. Shot in an explosive found footage style, the film slowly builds until its first moment of violence, and then never slows down. She travels from Los Angeles to London to visit her ex-bandmate and winds up livestreaming a maelstrom of carnage and demonic possession. Here, the musician Annie Hardy stars as Annie, a MAGA, antivaxxer host of a livestream show. (Don’t confuse this “Dashcam” with another recent and terrific film of the same name.) It’s directed by Rob Savage, whose terrifying “Host,” about a bonkers supernatural Zoom call, was one of my favorite films released within the first year of the pandemic. I’ll start with the most unhinged, low-budget and controversial movie on my list. Because last month’s picks took a deep dive into depravity, this time I’m (mostly) sticking to low-gore, less-scary horror movies that won’t keep you up at night.
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