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.
Morfydd Clark Jennifer Ehle Lily Frazer Lily Knight Turlough Convery Rosie Sansom Marcus Hutton Carl Prekopp Noa Bodner Takatsuna Mukai Jel Djelal Joanna Richardson Jonathan Milshaw Fiona Thompson Sona Vyas Faith Edwards Evo Payne Amanda Vinter Caoilfhionn Dunne Louise Port Paul Edward Davies Linda E. Greenwood Andrew G. Ogleby Susanne Schraps Colin Thompson Bianka Vago Jake Wyatt
Santa Maud
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!
i want a church girl that go to church and read her bible just like maud do 😇
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
if i have to sit through one more arthouse, dim lit, brown color schemed, half assed metaphorical "elevated horror" film where nothing interesting happens until the last 20 minutes, i am going to off myself
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
