#Fabfilter twin review movie#

We learn very quickly that the family – Rachel (Teresa Palmer), her husband Anthony (Steven Cree) and their young son Elliot (Tristan Ruggeri) – have suffered a loss after a car crash, the loss being their other son Nathan, Elliot’s twin.

#Fabfilter twin review movie#

It isn’t bad on a technical level – on the contrary, the whole movie is shot quite beautifully – but this is the sort of movie language that has become so ingrained in these types of psychological horror movies that it becomes difficult to differentiate one establishing shot from another one could almost call it a cliché at this point.Īnd then we are fed our information about the characters on the screen. Should be good!Įxcept it isn’t, as the opening drone shot of a car driving through the countryside as ominous music swells in the background informs us. Turn the box over to check the run time and it’s 109 minutes long, so that’s nearly two hours of devil child capers to sit through. So, let’s do a checklist of what we have: a title that gives nothing away yet tells you everything, a tagline that bears very little relation to what the movie is actually about and artwork that’ll appeal to casual viewers who may have seen The Omen or a Chucky movie. If you thought that the ‘horror as a metaphor for grief’ subset of grindingly slow melodramas that make up the bulk of streaming service options was on the decline, Shudder Original The Twin arrives on Blu-ray, just in case you missed/skipped it when scrolling through the menus. Starring Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree, Barbara Marten, Tristan Ruggeri, and Raul Talmar.Ī family mourning the loss of one of their twin sons after an accident return to the father’s family home, but all is not well.