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PREVIEW: THE TURNING (15)
CONTEMPORARY adaptation of Henry James’ late 19th-century ghost story, The Turn Of The Screw.
The film transplants the jump scares to the countryside in Maine where Kate (Mackenzie Davis, pictured) accepts a position as a live-in nanny to two orphans, Miles (Finn Wolfhard) and Flora (Brooklyn Prince).
Housekeeper Mrs Grose (Barbara Marten) explains the children are “very special” and Kate quickly surmises that the youngsters are traumatised by the loss of their parents, who perished in mysterious circumstances.
The new nanny becomes unsettled by the erratic behaviour of Miles and Flora and Kate fears the children are hiding a dark secret linked to the departure of the previous governess.
PREVIEW: THE GRUDGE (15)
RELEASED in 2003, Ju-on: The Grudge was an unsettling Japanese horror about a curse borne of a grudge held by someone who dies in the grip of powerful anger. A lacklustre American remake followed two years later as well as homegrown and English-language sequels.
This reboot links three stories of hellish haunting through the eyes of traumatised police detective Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough, pictured). She moves to a small town in Pennsylvania with her son (John J Hansen) following the death of her husband.
Muldoon answers a call about a dead body in the woods and attends the scene with colleague Detective Goodman (Demian Bichir). He shares suspicions about a curse on a local property 44 Reyburn Drive, where the deceased was working with the owners (Lin Shaye, Frankie Faison).
In flashback, two other families fall victim to a malevolent presence that infects and destroys without mercy.
WAVES (15)
★★★★★ LIGHT. Shock. Heat. Ocean. Sound. A multitude of waves crest and crash with devastating consequences in writer-director Trey Edward Shults’ semi-autobiographical third feature.
Eighteen-year-old high school student Tyler Williams (Kelvin Harrison Jr) is a star athlete on the wrestling team thanks to relentless training and sparring with his domineering father, Ronald (Sterling K Brown, pictured).
Dreams of excellence are threatened by a level five SLAP tear to Tyler’s shoulder, which requires surgery to avoid permanent, irreversible damage.
Instead, the teenager secretly pops his father’s prescription painkillers to push through the discomfort and maintain his golden boy status in the eyes of his stepmother (Renée Elise Goldberry).
Events spiral sickeningly out of control when Tyler’s girlfriend Alexis (Alexa Demie) learns she is pregnant and the young couple run a gauntlet of angry protesters outside an abortion clinic.