‘Don’t leave Adam alone’
Still/Born is a 2017 Canadian horror film directed by Brandon Christensen (producer of It Stains the Sands Red) from a screenplay co-written with Colin Minihan. It stars Christie Burke, Jesse Moss and Rebecca Olson.
Mary, a new mother, lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the trauma, she begins to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child – a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her…
Credit: Digital Interference Productions/Hadron Films
Reviews:
“Still/Born’s choppiness doesn’t nag overmuch because a brisk 84-minute runtime keeps rhythm rolling. Mattering more in this case are the ends not the means. Even when the path isn’t pretty, the destination delivers dread. And what the movie has going for it in the traditional terror department is more intriguing than mulling what it misses in invention.” Ian Sedensky, Culture Crypt
“As Still/Born progresses, we slowly start to realize that we don’t actually know anything about Mary […] It’s too bad, really, because the first half of Still/Born offers such straightforward scares that, if upheld, would leave the audience too traumatized to belabor such qualms. It’s a bummer that this simple, effective premise is so quickly burdened with silly mythology and overwrought melodrama.” Meredith Borders, Birth. Movies. Death.
Main cast:
Christie Burke, Jesse Moss, Rebecca Olson, Jenn Griffin, Michael Ironside (The Vagrant; Visiting Hours; Scanners), Sheila McCarthy, Sean Rogerson, Dylan Playfair, Praneet Akilla, Pat Chau, Grace Christensen, Maddox Laloge, Paige Laloge, Naddine Madell, Barb Mitchell.
Production companies:
Digital Interference/Umbrella Collective Films/Hadron Films
Filming locations:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
