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08 November 2007
Every time we write off William Friedkin as a director he comes up with something that proves he can still do it.
This is an adaptation of an off-Broadway play from Tracy Letts, in which Ashley Judd plays a down-at-heel waitress with a threatening husband just out of jail and a new boyfriend in Michael Shannon.
The boyfriend turns out to be infested with evil bugs - or is he just a paranoid schizophrenic?
Friedkin rachets up the tension until his film becomes a full-blown horror thriller, securing a performance from Judd that is memorably sleazy but still pretty sexy.
No one would claim this to be a classic of its kind. But it is a great deal better than most contemporary horrors, and was probably made for virtually nothing too.
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Cert: 18
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