POWER POSSESSION

Wow this film. I think you can probably take this straight from 48 hours and chuck it at other film festivals haha. I don't know if the 4 of you are also a family in real life? But I could tell there were some very smart choices the whole way through this film to make it seem like you're all (including the children and adorable doggy) very practiced professionals. Your youngest actress did an amazing job being possessed. Filming her and playing it backwards (I think?) for that sort of disjointed possessed body language was clever. I loved Mum's positivity the whole way through, complimenting her daughter's drawings and gently encouraging her son not to scare his sister. I am a mum of similar aged children and it made me laugh because it was so like the convos I have with my own kids, trying to support and encourage them to grow, and engage and be in the moment with them, while probably missing all kinds of stuff cuz we have about a billion things going on in our brains as we're doing our best to keep on top of everything. And this is a weird sentence, but I loved all the ways they met their various ends, especially the dog eating the boy in the bath (again, both brilliant actors). Please give massive high fives to the kids, you should all be so proud of your film. Thank you for the fun watch

Yeesh, that is some impressive child-acting! The clash between mum's bubbly obliviousness and the demon unfolding is brilliant - Bluey-level relatability against a backdrop of evil. I somehow missed the connection to the power going out until the end of the movie, but that didn't detract from the story for me. My personal favourite is the last shot of the dad. Properly stomach-heaving stuff!