There are some strong genre-literate ideas (the eco themes of Deliverance, the woodland devils of The Evil Dead) and impressively realised creature effects in former pop promo director Corin Hardy’s uneven feature debut. Joseph Mawle and Bojana Novakovic are the newly sprogged parents whose presence in an Irish forest disturbs vengeful spirits, with child-imperilling results. While the core elements of the story never quite add up (writer/director Hardy struggles to reconcile the “bad fairy” fantasy with the Straw Dogs-y home invasion grit), there are a few arresting set pieces, most notably a night-time delve into an eerie lake that has an impressively weird atmosphere.
