You can't outrun a family secret.
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
- Harm to children
- Body horror
- Graphic violence
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Bleak, grave, classical in form and unpretentious.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Aug 20222/10
Befitting its title, this movie feels like the son of The Exorcist and Rosemary – and in that sense it is proof that talent does skip a generation. It's as if screenwriter/director Ivan Kavanagh thought that revisiting Rosemary's baby was a good idea, even though someone else had already gone back to that particular well, and the result left a lot to be desired (I’m referring of course to Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby). Laura (Andi Matichak) is the young single mother of David (Luke David Blumm). One night, Laura stumbles upon a group of refugees from the Bramford Building in David's room. She runs off to a neighbor's house and calls the police. As it often happens in these cases, the police find not a shred of evidence of a home invasion, and one of the detectives (Cranston Johnson) obviously thinks Laura is one card short of a full deck. In contrast, the other detective, Paul (Emile Hirsch), is understanding, patient, and attentive – in short, he is so obliging that we immediately know he’s going to doublecross Laura sooner or later; it's just a matter of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Shortly after, David begins to experience symptoms of a disease that a battery o
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Cast
- Andi MatichakLaura
- Emile HirschPaul
- Luke David BlummDavid
- Cranston JohnsonSteve
- Blaine MayeJimmy Naegle
- J. Robert SpencerDr. Bauhn
- Rocco SistoDr. Bradlee
- Kristine NielsenMrs. Naegle
- Erin Bradley DangarSusan
- Adam StephensonFather
Crew
- Ivan KavanaghDirector
- Ivan KavanaghWriter
- Piers McGrailDirector of Photography
- Robin HillEditor
- Rene BastianProducer
- AnneMarie NaughtonProducer
- Louis TisnéProducer
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