Anchored by a great performance by Sosie Bacon, Parker Finn's feature debut is impressively unnerving—if you're up for it
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.The Grudge
, where an unstoppable curse gets passed along from one doomed person to the next. In this case, the victim-hopping, smiling presence drives a person into violent suicide, always in front of a witness who within a week becomes its next victim. The most effective scares involve variations on Hideo Nakata’s best one in, where a character suddenly realizes there’s a scary thing right beside or behind them, and slowly, grudgingly turns to look at it, only to find it’s even worse than imagined.
Psychiatrist Rose Cotter , a doctor so noble her fiancé mentions she’d work for free if she had to, becomes its latest target when an emergency patient slices open her own neck in front of her—without flinching, no less. Rose is already dealing with enough residual trauma from her pushy, perfect-parent-in-training sister , but the woman’s grim-faced death in her office prompts the early stages of a breakdown.
There’s some comic relief, but it’s very deadpan, such as when a secondary character gets unduly excited by his vegan meal. It may ease the tension to realize that the demon/spirit/whatever is apparently a fan of exposition, and doesn’t appear whenever Rose is actively learning information that furthers the plot. The moment she gets any downtime, though, watch the hell out.
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