Oddity

Horror

Available on VOD: TBA Q2 2025

Director: Damian Mc Carthy

Cast: Carolyn Bracken (The Lodgers), Gwilym Lee (Bohemian Rhapsody), Caroline Menton

When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead. A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge.

• 96% Fresh op Rotten Tomatoes met 100 reviews, een greep:
• FilmSchoolRejects.com: The first film in a long, long time to have me on edge and second guessing my decision to watch with the lights off.
• Awfj.org: While the story of Oddity is a fascinating one, it is less the tale itself than the particular way McCarthy chooses to tell it that renders it one of the year’s best horror movies
• RogerEbert.com: The final frame is so perfect it exceeds expectations. It makes me wish I had seen "Oddity" in a packed midnight show. Mc Carthy does the hardest thing of all: he sticks the landing.
• Bloody-disgusting.com: Oddity continues the filmmaker’s exploration of supernatural karma and retribution with offbeat characters and a unique vision for scares.
• Blu-ray.com: Delivers creepiness and satisfying closure. Frights remain in play in the movie, which connects with genre formula and many inspired moments of pure filmmaking.
• Variety.com: "Oddity" enters terrifying territory full throttle.

You Are Not My Mother

Horror, Thriller

Available on VOD: 9 februari 2023

Director: Kate Dolan

Cast: Hazel Doupe (Calm with Horses), Carolyn Bracken (The Lodgers), Paul Reid (Never Grow Old, Vikings)

It’s the week before Halloween and Char’s mother, Angela, has inexplicably disappeared. All that remains is her abandoned car. When she returns home without explanation the following evening, it becomes clear to Char and her grandmother, Rita, that something is amiss. She might look and sound the same but Angela’s behaviour has become increasingly frightening, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. When Halloween arrives, a night steeped in ancient myth and legend, Char realises that she is the only one who can save her, even if it means potentially losing her forever.

• Cinemagazine: Een lekker broeierig sfeertje van onbehagen dat diep onder je huid kruipt. Je voelt doorlopend dat er iets gruwelijk mis is, maar blijft als kijker lange tijd in het ongewisse over het precieze hoe en wat.. Lees de hele review hier.
• TheGuardian.com: Intense performances by Doupe and Bracken give it a real emotional pulse.
• Variety.com: A coolly unsettling but also deep-feeling horror film, one that keeps the ordinary and the extraordinary in tense, tetchy balance throughout.
• TheNewYorkTimes.com: Imaginative and spooky, You Are Not My Mother shows just how frightening - and stigmatizing - a parent's mental illness can be to a child.
• RogerEbert.com: So effective and emotional, a dedicated portrait of trauma passed down through generations.
• TheWrap.com: With striking scares, moody atmosphere, and impressive performances, You Are Not My Mother gradually reveals itself to be a wicked, wicked work of horror.
• LosAngelesTimes.com: At once deeply creepy and strangely moving.
• DailyGrindhouse.com: an eerie new entry in the folk horror subgenre that mixes magic and family trauma to chilling effect.
• Wegotthiscovered.com: Thisa thought-provoking, hard-hitting debut from Kate Dolan, balancing family drama with supernatural horror steeped in local legend.
• Eyeforfilm.co.uk: Heartbreaking in places, spine-shudderingly creepy in others, You Are Not My Mother finds both terror and inspiration in the awareness that the world might be bigger and stranger than expected.
• Ukfilmreview.co.uk: Dolan and a game cast explore the specific pain and yearning that goes along with wanting so badly to save a person you love from themselves. At the same time, they dig into the horror of looking into familiar eyes and finding no one you recognize, but maybe someone who means you harm.