Synopsis
Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.
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Cast
- Carla JuriMagda
- Alec SecăreanuTomaz
- Imelda StauntonSister Claire
- Angeliki PapouliaMiriam
- Anah RuddinMother
- Paul O'KellyPaul Builder
- Elowen HarrisDina
- Jacqueline RobertsDoctor
- Louis Jay JordanSquatter
- Perry JaquesVan man
Recommendations
- 90
Screen Daily
Amulet is deeply, deliberately mysterious, and all the more fun for it; the less viewers know going in, the more ferocious the ride. - 83
The A.V. Club
Amulet elevates these themes of repentance and sin through deft editing, strong performances, and a chilling score. It’s an evocative, confident debut, recalling the metaphorical horror of Jennifer Kent’s "The Babadook" or Babak Anvari’s "Under The Shadow," even as it announces the arrival of a singular new voice. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
It's all way freakier than it is frightening, but there's a distinctive taste for cruelty here that marks Garai as an audacious new horror auteur. - 75
The Playlist
Amulet is a horror movie which baits-and-switches cleverly—and angrily—about who is the horror’s innocent victim, and who’s its guilty cause. And as a haunted house film, its ornate mythology pulls the dingy rotting rug out several times from under our initial idea of who is the haunter and who the hauntee. - 70
Los Angeles Times
It starts throwing details at you almost immediately, each one building on yet also undermining the last, as if it were deliberately trying to confound your sense of what kind of movie you’re watching. - 70
Film Threat
Horror movies usually aim to scare, entertain, and teach us. Amulet mostly does all three. Very nicely done. - 67
IndieWire
It’s an impressive first feature, and while fans of zippy midnight movies might balk at its slow-burn opening act, the film eventually builds to some nutso body horror and a strong sense of mythology that announces Garai’s arrival as a filmmaker to watch, no matter the genre. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film never feels as satisfying or as haunting as its bow-tying epilogue strives for.
