If someone tells you that you are about to watch a haunted house movie what is the first thing you think of ? A haunted house that you walk through or an Amityville type dwelling that just doesn’t seem to like you being there ? I bring this up because Relic is a haunted house movie that contains a maze, but not in a cheesy horror film way, but more of a drama horror kind of way.
The story resolves around a mother daughter driving to an empty home of their mother grandmother who has gone missing. All signs point to a woman who may have wandered off quickly. Minor spoiler coming….and then after a few days she just shows up in the kitchen as if nothing has happened. This is when we get some insight into her sate of mind which appears to be in a state of dementia. The story progresses as the mother is unable to explain what has happened and odd things begin happening in the house. As a viewer you are left to ponder is this dementia or a possession ?
And then about an hour into the movie the daughter takes a turn in the small house and begins lost in a maze of cluttered hallways much too large to actually fit in the house (in some ways similar to the house in You Should Have Left). Can she escape ? What is going on with the house ? Real spoilers would answer that, and despite a relatively slow pace, things are tense and interesting.
I give it a 6.5/10.
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