Director: Max Eggers and Sam Eggers

94min., R

Cast: Neal Huff, Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter

 

“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life (or world) that are difficult to face…” – David Cronenberg.

 

It’s a family affair, as twins Sam and Max Eggers join their brother Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) in the family business of scaring filmgoers into sleepless nights! Everything goes to hell for Belinda, a black pregnant anthropology professor played by Brandy Norwood, after her Daughters-of-the-Confederacy mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. First it’s the racial and religious microaggressions, then it’s rearranging the furniture, but when the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda declares family warfare.