Saint Clare review – Bella Thorne takes out predatory creeps in feminist revenge horror
Funnily enough, it seems there have been numerous unsolved disappearances of young women in the very town in which she lives with her retired actor grandma, Gigi (Rebecca De Mornay, underused but feisty). So Clare gets investigating and nearly every man she meets seems suss, apart from the campus's flamboyantly gay theatre director (Joel Michealy) who is clearly just there for comic relief. And yet Clare doesn't seem all that good at building relationships with women either, given the toxic, bitchy interactions she has with supposed friends Amity (Erica Dasher) and Juliana (Joy Rovaris), mean girls whom the film seems quite happy to put in danger.
This is adapted from a novel by Don Roff, the script crafted by director Mitzi Peirone and co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner. Turner, also an actor, was once quite a name in the indie movie world with credits for co-writing Go Fish and American Psycho among others, but this doesn't really have the same zeitgeist-harmonising thrum. Instead, it plays as pseudo-feminist horror for viewers who don't really like women, or, for that matter, men. Or people of any gender. It's all curdled but not in an especially interesting way, although there is no denying that Thorne has a basic charisma that holds the screen, and Ryan Phillippe is well cast as a grouchy cop whose agenda doesn't mesh with Clare's.
Saint Clare is on digital platforms from 21 July.
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