Intergenerational trauma and illness is a theme that’s been explored in horror films for decades, most recently in Ari Aster’s “Hereditary,” and Japanese-Australian director Natalie Erika James, pushes this unsettling sub-genre forward with “Relic,” her haunting feature-length debut about watching a loved one lose their grip on reality.
Starring Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, and veteran theatre actress Robyn Nevin, “Relic,” also employs the haunted house genre to tell the story of three generations of women who must deal with the decline of their family home and the vanishing mental health of the family’s matriarch.Read More: 52 Films Directed By Women To Watch In 2020Set somewhere outside Melbourne in the country, in a decrepit family home, when the octogenarian Edna (Nevin) is reported missing, her distressed adult daughter Kay (Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Heathcote) rush home in a panic to try and find her.Continue reading ‘Relic’ Is
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