Saint Maud

Movie Ranked #520 | 2020 - Drama, Horror, Mystery
Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.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 disturb ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) - Skirting easy cynicism to view fire, brimstone and occasional grace through Maud’s awestruck eyes, this is finally as much a sympathetic character study, a mental heath mind-map, as it is any kind of chiller. Whatever the case, it’s one hell of a debut for Rose Glass. (Rating: 90) Read Full Review >
2) - A slender but unholy cross between “First Reformed” and “The Exorcist." (Rating: 83) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
5) - [A] striking and auspicious feature debut ... Saint Maud seeds the clouds with an eclectic mix of influences, but it works, creating a film with its own strange weather. (Rating: 80) Read Full Review >
6) - There is certainly well-executed horror to be found here . . . and Morfydd Clark plays the title character with an unnerving zeal. But the pacing can be slow, the tension loose, and the fiery payoff injecting a killer dose of nastiness that arrives too little too late. (Rating: 50) Read Full Review >
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