Relic

2020 · 89 min · EN · R · 6.1 (865 votes)

Dir. Natalie Erika James · Starring Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin, Chris Bunton, Steve Rodgers, Catherine Glavicic · Music Brian Reitzell

“Everything Decays.”

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When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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This film is a creeping, melancholic descent into the horrors of aging and familial decay. It feels like a suffocating embrace of dread, where the house itself breathes with an unsettling, pervasive sadness. The atmosphere is thick with a quiet, profound terror that lingers long after the credits.

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