(2024)
Director Damian Mc Carthy
Starring Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy, Steve Wall, Caroline Menton, Johnny French

I had the wonderful opportunity to recently see this new film by director Mc Carthy, even though at the time, I had no idea it was from the director of Caveat (2020), which I counted as my favorite of the year I saw it, in 2021. During one part of the movie, scrolling past a display case, you can see that scary little rabbit from Caveat and then it all clicked!

The story is about twin sisters, one of which is murdered, and the other, who happens to be both blind and psychic, tries to uncover the real mystery of her sister’s death. The dead sister’s husband is a doctor at a psychiatric ward, where a patient that was released earlier is the apparent murderer. But there is much more going on here that we discover as the characters do.

Carolyn Bracken plays the twins sisters, Darcy and Dani, and did such a great job in developing the two separate characters that I didn’t even realize it was the same actress until it was mentioned they were twins. Then it clicked! I guess changing your hair color and style is all that it takes to confuse me! Nonetheless, Bracken does a fantastic job with both roles. Bracken appeared in a 2021 film You Are Not My Mother, which is a slow burn but worth the watch. Bracken does another suburb job. The doctor / husband is played by Gwilym Lee, known for playing Brian May in the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). I really enjoyed his character arc throughout the story. Johnny French, who had starred in Caveat, returns here with a smaller role, but it was nice to see him continuing to work with Mc Carthy.

The film was written by Mc Carthy as well, and what he has come up with, I feel, is a great little creepy tale of a mystery that one sister is trying to uncover. She does this through her psychic powers, as well as using cursed objects that she sells in her antique shop that she inherited from her mother. There is a clay figure used in the second half of the film that, like the rabbit from Caveat, is damn creepy and used very effectively.

Not only would I recommend this film, as well as seek out Caveat if you haven’t seen it already, but I’d be keeping an eye out for Damian Mc Carthy. I think he’s going to continue to give us some great stuff.