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Share with: Having recently watched for the first time Ashley Thorpe’s Borley Rectory and re-watched Burnt Offerings, The Banishing comes at a fortuitous time as it draws on the phantoms of the former and the idea of a house that is just plain evil from the latter. Opening with a bloody murder and suicide of a priest and his wife we go forward three years and the arrival of a new priest Linus (John Hefferman) and later on his wife Marianne (Jessica Brown Findlay) and daughter Adelaide (Anya McKenna-Bruce). The house is not in great condition though liveable. However there are tensions w...

The Little Stranger. But as any guest of Netflix’s Bly Manor can attest, restraint has its drawbacks. There’s a fine line between classily understated and boring. Advertisement Thankfully, boring is one word you couldn’t use to describe The Banishing, which defies expectations of understated British horror with giallo maximalism. Where so many directors would have made one choice, Christopher Smith ( Black Death) makes 10: Mirrors! Dolls! Masochist monks! Bishop gangsters! Nazis! Time travel? Poltergeists! Child possession! A critique of Neville Chamberlain’s pre-WWII policy of pacif...

Read Pat King's review of Christopher Smith's THE BANISHING with Jessica Brown Findlay, John Lynch, Sean Harris on Shudder April 15th.

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