There are interesting ideas and moments of potential in this low-budget British psychological chiller, a variation on the classic theme of Don’t Look Now. But due to issues with pacing and control of the narrative, it doesn’t quite come together, and the necessary chill isn’t properly refrigerated.
Jasmine Hyde and Richard Flood play Gemma and Will, a wealthy couple living in London who are devastated after the death of their son: Gemma starts to suffer from psychosomatic blindness and Will starts hearing things. In despair they accept an offer of help from their mysterious neighbour Paul (Simon Cotton) – they can stay in his cottage in the Lake District. This holiday merely leads them into a deeper hell.
When The Unseen works it has an interestingly airless atmosphere, a weirdly disconnected, alienated quality that mimics the couple’s fraught emotional state. But the tension and sense of fear were lacking.
