Revue ‘Bring Her Back’ ‘: a deeply disturbing and bloody portrait of sorrow

Beware of the original host mother who presents herself as a little weird. This is how Laura (Sally Hawkins) happily greets the newly orphaned adolescent brothers and sisters Andy and Piper in the new horror “Bring Her Back”, which Open in theaters on Friday.

The commentary, more revealing than the children did not realize it at the time, intervenes after Laura presented Piper enthusiastically, which is not myopic, to her dog. She thinks it is a good joke not to explain first that the animal is not alive.

Taxidermia is actually the least strange thing in Laura. Australian filmmakers Michael and Danny Philippou, also behind the beginnings of Chiller Teen “Talk to me,” have imagined a new nightmare of trauma, sorrow, resurrection and deep failures of the Australian childhood protection services. This last part is not in fact a leading line in the film, but after witness what these children last in the execution time of 99 minutes, you could also have questions about the standard practices of this department.

Many movies and horror stories have used characters not to improve the suspense. “Batte Her Back” strives to make Piper (the newcomer Sora Wong) more than a gadget, but a young woman trying to assert her independence – she refuses to use her cane, which, according to her, makes everyone the baby.

The main protector of Piper is his sweet and attentive older brother Andy (Billy Barratt). The film gives the public a piece of normality with these two before immersing us in horror, first with the sudden death of their father, then with the strange coming to the isolated house of Laura.

They are surprised when they arrive to find that there is also another child there: Olly (Jonah Wren Phillips), who is silent, deeply strange and, when she is not locked in her room, puts herself in bloody mess of her own manufacture. If you are delicate on gaping injuries and the sound experience surrounds their crushing and oozing, it may not be the film for you. For those who are delighted with crafts behind all this, makeup and sound work here are really of first order.

Like many peers of “missed her back”, older and naked older men and vhs co-star grainy bands in the procedure. Laura, whose no longer open girl has recently drowned, is particularly fixed on Piper and just as disdainful of the poor Andy.

Although you can probably guess its end of the game, the way it gathers is more from the point, and the Philippou twins certainly breathe in the film with a good amount of feeling before something really disturbed begins. It is a fun mystery to look at the strange behavior of Laura, which a hectic day understands encourage Andy to kiss his died father on his lips (“it’s custom”), enrich children and pee in a cup to measure.

Andy, three months under the age of 18, was not originally supposed to accompany his sister to the foster home. But he convinces the social worker to give him a chance until he can request legal supervision. Unfortunately, Laura seems determined to chase him. He already has a persistent trauma to find his deceased father (and other things that will be revealed in time), and now there is this gray and a little woman ready to make her in madness. Barratt, who was acclaimed for his representation of a 12 -year -old young person accused of killing his mother’s boyfriend in the British TV “Responomage Child”, is excellent in a difficult role.

Hawkins, meanwhile, becomes larger and wilder with Laura, losing the nourishing mothers of “Paddington” and “Wonka” for something disturbed with challenge. She also has a few deliciously frightening lines that I will not spoil. And yet, Hawkins is also able to stay away from the campineuse and make Laura, disadvantaged even if it can be, the most adolescent.

The film does not quite earn the emotional catharsis for which it seems to be trying. It’s a little too crazy and also underdeveloped, in particular the character of Piper, to leave the public at this level. But if you have come for unexpected fear and creativity, “bring it closer” will not disappoint.

“Bring Her Back”, an A24 outing in theaters on Friday, is classified R by the cinematographic association for “some macabre images, language, graphic nudity, strong violent content, minor alcohol consumption). Execution time: 99 minutes. Two and a half stars in four.