A Netflix viewing on July 4th in Chicago, part two of a horror double header.
Lee Cronin writes and makes his feature directorial debut with this supernatural/creepy kid/parental distress film set in Ireland. Single mother Sarah (Seána Kerslake) and her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey) have recently moved to the Irish countryside to start a new life (it's implied that Chris's father may not have been a real joy to be with). One night, Chris gets out of the house and while looking for him in the woods (did I forget to mention that they live in a secluded house in the woods! They might as well have a sign on the front door that says "come chop us up!") Sarah comes across a rather large and dubious sinkhole. As she's on the phone to call for help, Chris show back up. Problem solved right? But Chris just doesn't see right after that night and Sarah slowly starts to succumb to fear and paranoia (the descent into madness begins!).
One day while driving home, Sarah and Chris come across a pajama clad crazy old lady in the street. Some time later, Sarah and Chris notice that the pajama clad crazy old lying is lying face down on the ground. It turns out that her head is buried. Sarah frantically digs her head up but she's dead. At the funeral, the old lady's husband has not been the same since the death of their son, who was about Chris' age when he died. He tells Sarah that she started to believe that her son was not really her son. Sarah now believes that this isn't the Chris she brought into the world. She confronts the alleged doppelganger, traps it in the cellar and heads off to the mysterious sinkhole.
This was probably the best creepy kid film I've seen since The Babadook. Markey plays the creepy kid really, really well and Kerslake really pulls of the paranoid parent and descent into madness. Cronin does a nice job with the pace and the tension. The film received a deserved 86% Rotten Tomatoes rating. My wife and I kept talking about the film over the weekend and that's a sing of an interesting film. You're still talking about later. This was a creepy film is is worth watching if one has a Netflix subscription.
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