Son (2021) Review
Rising horror star Andi Matichak (Halloween) leads alongside Jay Sebring (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) and Luke David Blumm (The King of Staten Island) in his horror debut to deliver an enthralling and brutal flick that leaves nothing to the imagination.
Laura (Matichak) lives with her eight-year-old son David (Blumm)…. But her tranquil homelife is upset when one night she awakens to find strangers surrounding his bed. When the police turn up, there’s no sign of anyone breaking into their home. As Laura begins to question her sanity, her son becomes increasingly ill and repressed memories of her past life in a cult start to resurface. She descends further into perceived madness whilst David develops an insatiable hunger for humans. Will cop Paul (Hirsch) be able to help her find answers and escape the grasp of the cult or is her Son out of her reach?
Written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh (THE CANAL, NEVER GROW OLD) and featuring one of my favourite actors Emile Hirsch, SON takes an established narrative and gives it a nasty welcome twist. I found it absolutely gripping throughout and it’s definitely a film that deserves to be seen and appreciated by a much wider audience. This supernatural thriller lets you know from the offset that David isn’t like other boys and doesn’t waste any time building upon that. It’s surprisingly unafraid to go to those places you’d least expect makes the film more of a stand-out than it’s plot synopsis would have you believe.