As much as I love the Conjuring films and various ’80s slasher icons, I’m a huge sucker for arthouse horror, which has become A24’s specialty. With that, if you’re a fan of The Witch, Hereditary or Midsommar, you’re surely pumped for The Lighthouse and In Fabric. But what comes after?
A24 has acquired North American rights to writer/director Rose Glass’ feature directorial debut Saint Maud straight out of the Toronto International Film Festival where critics are raving, including our own Joe Lipsett, who called it an “exquisite religious psychological thriller.“
“Saint Maud is slow, and moody, and gorgeous, and powerful,” he adds. “It’s simply good cinema.”
The movie centers on a pious but unstable nurse, Maud, who becomes convinced that she must save the soul of her dying employer, Amanda, as signs of eternal damnation begin to present themselves in their isolated seaside town. Morfydd Clark (Love & Friendship) stars as Maudz, while Tony and BAFTA-winning actress Jennifer Ehle (The Miseducation of Cameron Post) plays Amanda.
Source: Heat Vision