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Hostile

2014 · 90 min

A slow, uneasy descent into domestic dread, where a mother's hope curdles into something quietly sinister and hard to shake.

Directed by
Nathan Ambrosioni
Genres
Fantasy, Horror, Drama
Starring
Anatolia Allieis, Nathan Ambrosioni, Vanessa Azzopardi
Overview
Meredith Langston always longed to have children. She finally makes this happen when she adopts two young adolescent girls. However, her now idyllic world sours rapidly and dream veers to nightmare when she quickly finds that she is unable to cope with their increasingly strange behaviour. Desperate, she seeks the help of two journalists working for a local TV programme ‘SOS Adoption’. Unfortunately it is all for nothing, especially when the reporters discover that there is another presence in the house.

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Directed by
Nathan Ambrosioni
Genres
Fantasy, Horror, Drama
Starring
Anatolia Allieis, Nathan Ambrosioni, Vanessa Azzopardi
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • isolation
  • fate
  • freedom
Places
  • single country house
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • found footage
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror7
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
fantasy, horror, drama
Directed by
Nathan Ambrosioni
Written by
Nathan Ambrosioni
Starring
Anatolia Allieis, Nathan Ambrosioni, Vanessa Azzopardi, Luna Belan, Julie Venturelli, Didier Beaumont
Runtime
90 min
Country
France
Languages
English

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