Saturday, April 04, 2009
Wow, what a pleasant surprise – or terrifying one, depending on how you take your supernatural thrillers! This is a fantastic movie and I shall watch it again.

What kind of scary is it? Well, It is “handleable.” I was not twisted into a knot on the couch for most of the movie, as I was for Quarantine. In other words, while for me Quarantine was gripping, terrifying, serving up large doses of scream-inducing, edge-of-your seat horror, Dorothy Mills was spooky, eerie, and discomforting. Chances are you have not yet seen Quarantine, though, but it’s on the forefront of my mind now; I finished watching it less than an hour ago as I type this paragraph.

What movie, then, shall I use in place of Quarantine for the thrill level comparison I just made? I’d say any of these would do: 28 Days/Weeks Later, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). . .

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Evil Takes on Many Forms in Dorothy Mills…“A contemporary take on The Exorcist” (Variety), a teenage girl is accused of trying to strangle her neighbor’s baby with no recollection of the incident in Agnès Merlet’s (Artemisia) thriller Dorothy Mills arriving on DVD for the first time February 10 from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company.

Carice van Houten (Body of Lies, Valkyrie) stars as Jane Morton, a psychiatrist mourning the tragic death of her husband and son, who is assigned to work on the mysterious case of Dorothy Mills. When she travels from Dublin to meet with the troubled teenager, she discovers a village plagued by strange events and a horrid past. It isn’t until Dorothy speaks to her with the voice of her own dead son that Jane considers the possibility that the girl possesses powers that exist beyond the realm of psychiatry.