Director – Sébastien Vaniček – 2026 – New Zealand – Cert. 18 – 110m
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A French-born widow visits her bereaved American husband’s family for his funeral, and demonic mayhem ensues – less fun than it sounds horror franchise entry is out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 10th
After her husband Will (George Pullar) is killed in a car accident, Alice (Souheila Yacoub) stays with his gathered family at their home for the funeral. She is French, and there’s a definite feeling that his family doesn’t like her very much, a situation compounded by his demise. Her late husband’s father Edgar (Errol Shand) is consumed with grief. Will’s younger brother Joseph (Hunter Doohan) and hs girlfriend Thya (Lucine Buchanon) don’t reallty know what to make of her. Her mother-in law Susan (Tandi Wright) is trapped in a desolate marriage with a man she was once passionate about. And the family’s half-senile grandmother Polly, (Maude Davie) is convinced Alice has stolen from her.
Polly’s late husband was obsessed with the Necronomicon, the fabled Book of the Dead that runs through the foundation of the Evil Dead franchise, and so it is that the family into whose proximity Alice finds herself thrust, turn, one by one, into demons.… Read the rest
