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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Is Chillingly Creepy as a Foster Mother From Hell in the Philippous’ Terrifying Follow-Up to ‘Talk to Me’
In their disturbing horror film about a foster mother from hell, Danny and Michael Philippou create a domestic nightmare that gets under your skin.
In the city of Adelaide, Piper (Sora Wong), who is visually impaired (she can see shapes and light but is legally blind), and her fiercely protective older brother, Andy (Billy Barratt), arrive home one day to find their father collapsed on the floor of the shower, after having suffered some sort of seizure. Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), who appears to be about 10, is mute, with an androgynous crewcut look, a purple mark under his right eye, and a blank scowl that makes him resemble an angel and a demon at the same time. “Bring Her Back” barges right out of the gate, opening on an intensely upsetting note of grainy VHS footage that depicts shot-on-camcorder images of some weirdly grisly cult ritual, with bodies being hoisted into the air by nooses.
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