'Family' SXSW Review - Esoteric Arthouse Horror About Grief and Fear Induces Visceral Chills

The attention-grabbing opening scene in writer/director Benjamin Finkel’s Family effectively establishes the film’s peculiar, esoteric, yet bone-chilling tone. Evoking Relic or Ari Aster’s Hereditary, the cold open sees preteen protagonist Johanna (Cameron Dawson Gray) banging on the locked doors of a synagogue, pleading to be let in, only for her mother, Naomi (Ruth Wilson), to stalk across the lawn, […] The post 'Family' SXSW Review - Esoteric Arthouse Horror About Grief and Fear Induc...