Shelley

Shelley

2016 · 92 min · DA · 5.5 (137 votes)
Dir. Ali Abbasi · Starring Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Peter Christoffersen, Björn Andrésen, Marianne Mortensen, Marlon Kindberg Bach · Music Martin Dirkov

“Inside, an evil grows.”

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Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...

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A chilling, slow-burn descent into the dark side of desire and desperation. This film feels like a suffocating, psychological pressure cooker, exploring the unsettling consequences of a desperate pact with unnerving realism.

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