‘The Eyes of My Mother’ is fascinating, bleak horror movie
‘The Eyes of My Mother’ is fascinating, bleak horror movie
If Ingmar Bergman were to suddenly rise from the dead and make a modern horror film, it might look something like “The Eyes of My Mother.”
Not saying that Nicolas Pesce’s feature debut is a work of genius, but it is a kind of accomplished work.
[...] it stands out among a crowded horror marketplace, and is one of the most unusual horror films I’ve seen in a while.
In a cracked nutshell, it is the story of Francisca, a girl living in rural Americana whose life is shaped by a single act of horrific violence.
Mom, it seems, dreams of her daughter escaping farm life and becoming a surgeon.
Instead of turning him over to the police, dad chains him to the floor of the garage, where the drifter is imprisoned and tortured — for years.
Francisca, now a young woman (Kika Magalhaes), is left alone with her mother’s murderer after her father dies.