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.

Cast is great, story is great, dialogs are great! Lily Frazer OMG! So fast, athletic, deadly and super-cute as always. Performance of this actor from acting to action is just top notch! Jennifer Ehle is a master. He's transforming from one character to another on his carrier. Just ATOMIC!

I can honestly admit that it was better than I was originally expecting!

Best Horror movie I've seen. Better than all movies of recent time.

Such a great mystery movie!!

A movie that will hook you from the start

I liked it. Good actors. Good story.

Rose Glass as a director has made a lot of awesome movies in the past... and I mean A LOT! And This one definitely is one of them!

Great movie, was slow and confusing at first but ultimately kept you on the edge of your seat.

The movie (without question) deserve several Oscar nominations; for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, acting and more!

I loved this movie since i was a little kid and its one of my favorite movies in tell today!

Great cast, acting and directing. Loved it, very entertaining.