Relic Movie Storyline. When octogenarian Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family’s decaying country home and find clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay’s concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she’s been clashes with Sam’s unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back. However, as Edna’s behavior turns increasingly volatile, both begin to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her.
In her feature debut, writer/director Natalie Erika James crafts an unforgettable haunted-house movie highlighted by unsettling sonic and visual design (and complete with literal bumps in the night), while gracefully incorporating the all-too-real terror of facing a deteriorating loved one. All three actresses do superb work building their characters’ frayed family chemistry, with Robyn Nevin remarkable in the terrifically challenging role of Edna—who may be the manifestation of the monstrous force destroying the house or perhaps just its most vulnerable prey.
Relic is an 2020 American-Australian horror film directed by Natalie Erika James in her directorial debut, from a screenplay by James and Christian White. It stars Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on July 10, 2020, by IFC Midnight.
Relic (2020)
Directed by: Natalie Erika James
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin, Chris Bunton, Steve Rodgers, Jeremy Stanford, Catherine Glavicic, Christina O’Neill, John Browning, Robin Northover
Screenplay by: Natalie Erika James, Christian White
Production Design by: Steven Jones-Evans
Cinematography by: Charlie Sarroff
Film Editing by: Denise Haratzis, Sean Lahiff
Costume Design by: Louise McCarthy
Set Decoration by: Vanessa Cerne
Art Direction by: Loretta Cosgrove, Marianne Evans, Timothy Stuart Hildebrandt
Music by: Brian Reitzell
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: IFC Midnight
Release Date: July 10, 2020
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