Made in 2006 but only getting a release now, off the back of the Oscar-winning A Separation, this similarly domestic, similarly brilliant drama by the Iranian master Asghar Farhadi follows Roohi (Taraneh Alidoosti), a prospective bride from a poor traditional background, into a middle class household, where she works as a cleaner while the well-to-do couple’s marriage falls apart around her. And it makes a change from the Saw films, which is what Wan made his name with.įireworks Wednesday (Axiom, cert 12, DVD) It is all very well done, if a touch underwritten, but then Wan also got the mood pretty well right with his previous 1970s horror homage, Insidious. Meanwhile inside the house where the demon infestation is going on, Wan shows us he has also seen The Amityville Horror and, just for high-tone kudos, Don’t Look Now. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson play the weird earnest, hucksterish exorcists, Farmiga deliberately going for Ellen Burstyn in her performance, Wilson wisely staying away from any suggestion of channelling Max Von Sydow.
But he’s definitely seen the film The Conjuring is an exercise in Exorcist atmospherics – all rosaries, Latin and vomit. The Hayes brothers are in their 50s but Wan wasn’t even born when The Exorcist was released in 1973. The Conjuring (Warner, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)Ī family living out in the boonies is terrorised by a demon spirit in this moody horror film directed by James Wan and written by twin brothers Chad and Carey Hayes.
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