Bring Her Back sees Sally Hawkins do horror in style
In Bring Her Back, she is cast against type in an Aussie horror and delivers a performance for sibling directors Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) that's up there with her most acclaimed work - menace to put the wind up even the most seasoned viewers of all things scary.
Foster parent Laura (Hawkins) agrees to take in siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) when their father dies unexpectedly.
Laura, who is also fostering the disturbed Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), is a bit off from the get-go, empathetic one minute and intimidating the next.
What's she up to? Well, no spoilers here, but if you want a thrill ride, you need to get round to Laura's place.
It's some feat when you can do deeply disturbing and darkly comic in the same movie, but the Philippou brothers pull it off, Danny Philippou's script with co-writer Bill Hinzman (they also collaborated on Talk to Me) delivering plenty of whiplash moments as the walls close in on Andy and Piper.
Hawkins is in the best of on-screen company here. Barratt, an International Emmy winner at age 13 for the BBC Two film Responsible Child, deftly mixes bravery and bewilderment as Billy. Wong, who is visually impaired, had never acted before Bring Her Back, but stakes her claim to a screen career with one of this century's standout debuts. As for Phillips, well, it's incredible to see such screen presence in someone so young.
Bring Her Back has plenty of blood that it doesn't need, and there are two far-fetched moments - involving a swimming pool and a freezer - even for horror, but apart from those gripes, it's another Aussie winnah.
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