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Shelley

2016

Ali Abbasi

Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Björn Andrésen, Marlon Kindberg Bach ...

5.3

594

Mystery. Drama. Horror Danish couple Louise and Kasper live a secluded life in close contact with nature. Their house lies in a lonely spot in a forest by a lake; there is neither electricity nor mobile phone reception – something Elena, their young home help from Romania, still has to get used to. Once in a while she uses the only telephone at the house to call her young son who is growing up far away with her parents. Louise is very weak; she has just ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"It is full of menace but devoid of monsters, a minimalist approach that is both intriguing and somewhat unsatisfying."	NEU
United States	Alissa Simon Variety	"An underdeveloped psychological horror exercise in which nothing adds up (...) Abbasi remains content to make the audience uneasy through visual and aural cues, rather than connecting the dots with powerful backstory"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite that abundance of intriguing elements, the film's refusal to explain too much makes it seem a touch under-plotted"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"It’s a classy take on the often trashy pregnancy horror category (...) [There is] a subtle social critique underlying its neo-gothic texture (...) Petersen and Stratan are wonderful together"	POS
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"After a strong start, 'Shelley' becomes frustratingly vague in the middle, before rebounding with a finale that makes the implicit menace more explicit."	NEU

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