2019 Directed by Rose Glass
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
obsession and possession are two sides of the same coin. illness manifests physically and mentally. how much can one suffer without losing their faith, their sanity?
rose glass’s debut feature (!) expertly builds suspense and tension — it all leads up to an unforgettably shocking ending that burns itself into your memory, a stigmata for the hippocampus. i got irrationally scared in my bathroom when i returned home from the drive-in, which is an indisputable trademark of high-grade horror!
spent the whole movie absolutely wracked with anxiety at the images on screen, thinking “hey!!! you can’t do that, you’re gonna get COVID!!! watch out, Maud!!!!” and wow, to make me worry your protagonist is going to get a disease, because of nothing you’ve done but because it is a disease that exists in the real world right now? powerful filmmaking.
writing this review in line at the bathroom of the drive in because saint maud was very spooky and if i stop typing my bones might never return from their gelatin state
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Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film written and directed by Rose Glass in her feature directorial debut. The story follows hospice nurse Maud (portrayed by Morfydd Clark), a recent convert to Roman Catholicism due to the self loss of past trauma, who becomes obsessed with a former dancer in her care (Jennifer Ehle), believing she must save her soul.
This was my second viewing, the first time I didnt really know what to think because it is a heavy film and a lot of psychological works happen in such short amount of time. The first time I watched it I found it an outstanding piece of art. And now the second time I watched it,…
See, this is why being possessed by God is not a good thing either. Saint Maud is a psychological horror that follows the life of an overly religious hospice nurse and her fixation in saving her terminally ill patient’s soul. The thin border separating devotion and madness was the film’s core theme, shown in the life of Maud, a devout caretaker of Amanda, a patient in her dying days suffering from spinal lymphoma. Religion is such a strange and complex subject, in a sense that it compels people to do the most despicable of actions and the film managed to depict this outlandish phenomena with Maud, who desperately wanted to save the soul of her dying patient in any means…
A slender but unholy cross between “First Reformed” and “The Exorcist,” Rose Glass’ taut and trembling “Saint Maud” transmutes a young woman’s spiritual crisis into such a refined story of body horror that genre fans might feel like they’re having a religious experience. Of course, even the most overzealous viewers will find there’s always room for doubt — and that’s where the Devil gets in. A palliative care nurse in a dreary town somewhere along the British coast, the intensely devout Maud (a divine Morfydd Clark) is doing her best to seal the area around her soul. That seems to be one hell of a struggle. Soft-spoken but vibrating with serial killer intensity, Maud seldom opens her mouth when she’s…
i know i throw around the phrase “that ending tho” pretty often but like!!! THAT ENDING THO!!!!!!!!!! a double feature of this and the vvitch is something that sounds very appealing to me
The return of A24 is upon us! Saint Maud is a horrifying and absolutely WILD masterwork that showcases a new talent in director Rose Glass. While it does take time to build, once it reaches its fiery crescendo, it will blow your mind and leave you reeling for DAYS to come!
For those of you who’ve seen it, what did you think about the film overall (and it’s ending?)
it was a good film, but i think it's too disturbing and a not fun watch for me to rate it higher
Fun fact; this was the last film I saw in theaters before the pandemic. A little strained here and there, but a wicked little film with a great lead performance from Morfydd Clark. The last shot is also objectively great, but weak effects gave me the church giggles.
‘Saint Maud,’ coming from the BFI and A24 is the latest prestige horror to come from the two companies the last one to my memory was ‘In Fabric,’ which I loved and was my favorite movie that played not only in the Midnight Madness category but of all the movies of TIFF in 2018. ‘Saint Maud,’ played in the Midnight Madness category at TIFF in 2019 but I did not see it but here we are in 2021, it is coming to VOD in February and I have now seen and my verdict is: it is good. It was not a home run for me like ‘In Fabric,’ was but it has got some serious ‘Carrie,’ vibes going on instead…
estaba yo bebiendo agua en una escena aparentemente tranquila y de repente ha habido un susto y he gritado COÑO en medio de la sala y he salpicado a roberto con la botella😁
Simplemente una película más sobre una tarada ahora, menuda fantasía las alas que me lleva la Maudie
I do have a certain affinity toward films that deal with the theme of religion (Black Narcissus, First Reformed or even the recent The Devil All the Time) and I was excited about this more considering it's a horror film, and it did justify my expectations towards a certain extent.
This is more of an atmospheric horror film with the more explicit moments reserved for the last, so a major portion of this film did seem ordinary, but this is a short film and all those empty moments are justified in bringing a better structure to the story and the characters. The atmosphere is always maintained at a tense level and that helps this a lot. And that ending was neat.
I would love to see Rose Glass make more horror films in the future.
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