Broken Bird
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Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.
Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.
London frightfest 2024 review! This psychological horror, Broken Bird, directed by Joanne Mitchell, tells the tale of Sybil (Rebecca Calder), a disturbed mortician who loves taxidermy. Now, it is fair to expect a horror film with such a setup to degenerate into a grand guignol waxworks within the first reel. But instead, what we get here is a slow and penetrating meditation on loneliness, with an absolute barnstormer of a central performance from Calder.
Broken Bird. Photograph: Catalyst Studios. Film. This article is more than 1 year old. Review.But, as she reveals to Mr Thomas, the morbidness and control-freakery have an explanation: she was orphaned as a child as a result of a car crash. An extension of director Joanne Mitchell’s 2018 short, Broken Bird has not only the detail and richness of a long-cherished project, but also patrols a careful tonal line that operates in the waiting room between psychological thriller and true horror.
