![]() Toby Poser as the grieving mother is especially good, effectively conveying a realistically complex and moving portrait of someone's who's simultaneously certain of her pessimistic convictions yet desperately hopeful that she will be proven wrong. ![]() The acting is fine, and the characterization is well-developed. ![]() The cinematography here is not to be missed. There's a crisp, almost monochrome color palette of white snow against black night, with a touch of resonant blue and a splash of red thrown in for good measure. The setting is immersive, with richly contrasted color. The non-supernatural sequences are likewise artfully crafted, with the camera often functioning as a ghostly voyeur. The supernatural sequences have the twisty, extradimensional, mechanical cadaver feel of Tarsem or of a late 90s Marilyn Manson video, and the disorienting special effects are done with a sleight-of-hand (digital or practical, I'm not sure) that's seamless and very impressive. In spite of that, this movie is gorgeously lensed. I don't know much about the background of this movie, but I know it was made on location by an actual family, probably with a budget of next to nothing.
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