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‘The Surrender’ Review: Julia Max Explores Grief And Loss In A Bloody Supernatural Horror – SXSW
‘The Surrender’ review: Julia Max explores grief and loss in a thoughtful but gory supernatural horror – SXSW
The banality of modern-day witchcraft was first floated in Roman Polanski’s still-disturbing horror-thriller Rosemary’s Baby, and Kate Burton has an air of Ruth Gordon about her as she blithely leads her daughter ever further up the garden path to oblivion. But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond. Title: The Surrender Festival: SXSW (Midnighter) Director-screenwriter: Julia Max Cast: Colby Minifie, Kate Burton, Neil Sandilands, Vaughn Armstrong Sales agent: Blue Finch Running time: 1 hr 35 mins
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