• Director: Jennifer Kent
• With: Essie Davis, Andrew Lincoln, Greg Ellwand, Dexton Willizm Lund, Hannah Galway, Perry Mucci, Daniel henkel
• Music by: Jed Kurzel
• Duration: 1h04
• Platform: Netflix
• Rating: 6,5/10

Synopsis:

Mourning a major loss, ornithologists Nancy and Edgar flock to a secluded home to study birds, but the house’s history reveals heartbreak and horror.

Review:

This story is a slow tale of a couple who suffered a great loss. Especially the woman grieves immensely and while they move to an old house to investigate the murmuring of dunlin birds she wallows in that grief, while her husband wants to move on.

And then she starts to hear things in the house. She starts seeing a little boy and she knows now the house is holding some secrets. Who lived in the house before they moved in? Who is the little boy and what happened to him?

This is a gothic telling, a fever dream of a woman struggling to get over a loss. It’s a slow episode and I had hoped for a few more jump scares and a better ending. They focused too much on the couple trying to get their live back together and too little on the horror elements in the story. If it hadn’t been part of a horror anthology it would have made a great story for a drama movie!

Apparently this is by the same director who made The Babadook.