The paranormal showdown is fuzzy at best, but the pacing rocks and Spall radiates such ingratiating evil that he needs no help from special effects. Sorensen might be of dubious utility, but his mother and grandmother - well, they’re something else entirely.Ĭreating a world where men are mostly absent or suspect and women must work to save themselves, Stuart McKenzie’s thin but serviceable screenplay (he also directed with Miranda Harcourt) smartly favors human drama over hocus-pocus. At the same time, Laura is increasingly drawn to the glum, glamorously named Sorensen (Nicholas Galitzine), a stunner usually spied brooding on the fringes of school gatherings. After Laura begins to receive psychic warnings that Jacko may be in danger, a strange old man (played by a deliciously unnerving Timothy Spall) develops an intense interest in the boy. Set in Christchurch, New Zealand, a city still haunted by memories of the 2011 earthquake, the story centers on 16-year-old Laura (a fantastic Erana James), who lives with her overstressed mother (Melanie Lynskey) and little brother, Jacko (Benji Purchase).
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