Saint Maud

There, but for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation - whatever the cost. Making her feature film debut, writer-director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory. Morfydd Clark (also at the Festival in The Personal History of David Copperfield) portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered patient (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, also at the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere - but it isn't long before Maud's dogmatic candor incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia. As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure.

This movie is amazing!!! Acting was good. Conclusion: really, really loved it. If you haven't seen it rent it or buy it on blu-ray just GO SEE IT!!

This is, without a doubt going to be one of my top 10 movies quite possibly the number one film!

A brilliant new take on the classic Mystery genre! Truly unique and more than we could have expected or predicted!

This movie has a special place in my heart possibly because I've done the work that Rose Glass has done before! Great choice of actors as well!

This movie was really good compared to a lot of those out there.

This movie was fantastic!!! Do yourself a favor and watch it :)

I can't speak for others, but I found this wildly relatable. It's is my favorite movie now.

I really enjoyed this movie. If you like Horror this movie won't let you down.