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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

Backtrack review – a ghost story lacking chills

Sam Neill and Adrien Brody in Backtrack.
Sam Neill and Adrien Brody in Backtrack. Photograph: Allstar/Saban Films

Adrien Brody sees dead people in this derivative Australian chiller about a psychologist haunted by the loss of his daughter. Writer/director Michael Petroni plays it by the book, putting Tab A into Slot B as Brody’s Peter Bower goes on the trail of repressed memories and guilty secrets, with passable if wholly predictable results. Sam Neill adds a touch of careless class to a hokey supporting role.

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