Moloch

2022 · 99 min · NL · 6.0 (194 votes)

Dir. Nico van den Brink · Starring Sallie Harmsen, Alexandre Willaume, Markoesa Hamer, Jack Wouterse, Anneke Blok, Edon Rizvanolli

“Family history may haunt you forever.”

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Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.

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A suffocating dread permeates this Dutch folk horror. It's a slow, creeping descent into ancient terrors, where the landscape itself feels malevolent. The atmosphere is thick with paranoia and a sense of inescapable doom.

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