Relic
Directed by Natalie Erika James
When elderly mother Edna, inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family's decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay's concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she's been causes both to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her.
A mother and granddaughter sense an insidious presence is taking hold in this celebrated and unsettling psychological horror.
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin
Member Reviews
pretty good
I'm sure the writer of the movie thought otherwise, but the ending was one of the most absurd endings I can think of.
I don’t understand what the relic is? The grandma? This movie was unsettling af. Probably some kind of statement piece about how dementia and aging is frickin terrifying. And it is, obviously. The bit where the granddaughter is stuck in that weird closet demension is the scariest part by far. Starts out slow and creepy and ends fast and still creepy. It’s an awful fact of life that old ladies are terrifying as heck. I don’t know why, but they are.
Overrated. Overbloated. These kinds of movies are making me hate elevated horror.
It is indeed a little slow, but its speed is always quite intentional. Feels like it's part of the pending doom of - in this case - dementia and the inevitable end that awaits us. For someone who never made it through "House of Leaves," I really liked the way the house was portrayed, as well.