Seance on a Wet Afternoon
“Was it magic... Or murder they planned?”
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Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
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A chillingly intimate portrait of desperation. This film feels like a suffocating, grey London afternoon, where grief festers and the mundane becomes terrifyingly sinister. It's a slow descent into a bleak, unsettling world.
oppressivemelancholicunsettlingclaustrophobicslow-burnBritish New Wavekitchen sink realismblack and whitepsychological thrillergriefmanipulationdesperationclass struggle
londonenglandhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookransomkidnappingmediumworking classblack and whitemental illnessoccultséancebritish new waveloss of childstillbirth
