Wednesday, April 5, 2017

A DARK SONG

If you hear the words occult, ritual and demon associated with a film billed as a horror, you would understandably harbour certain genre expectations. A few pentangles, a reasonable amount of nudity (demons always seem to like naked disciples, don’t they?), and plenty of blood-letting all thrown together under a maelstrom of indecipherable chanting and screaming. But for his debut feature, Liam Gavin has stripped the occult theme right back to create a bleakly stylish, slow-burning drama that tentatively creeps up on you from behind, before burrowing deep under your skin.

 

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from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/latest-reviews-of-movies/17820-movie-review-a-dark-song

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