Written by Sam Stefanak
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peyton Jackson and Russell Hornsby
USA, 2025
A depressed widow and mother of two, still recovering from the car accident that took her husband’s life, wakes up one morning to find a mysterious shrouded woman sitting in the yard of her isolated farmhouse, refusing to leave.
Sounds like one of those creepily simple premises you can get lots of mileage out of, right? Like, it would be weird, right, if someone was in your yard and wouldn’t leave? Even if they weren’t supernatural or anything like that.
Unfortunately this movie never delivers and is mostly just boring and needlessly confusing. It is one of the many recent horror movies that has seized on the trend of kind of trying to walk the line between “nothing happening” and “being scary,” inspired by indie flicks that get a lot out of tone, atmosphere and character development.
I’m not saying movies have to be all sunshine and lollipops, but if ever there was a relentlessly depressing movie, it’s this one, as the lead character is so realistically depressed that she is emotionally and physically abusive to her own children. So, she’s hard to root for, even if you know these people exist and deserve empathy. In real life, I gotta convince myself. At the movies, it’s the movie’s job to convince me. This movie doesn’t.
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