Absentia (2011)

Director: Mike Flanagan

Starring: Catherine Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Morgan Peter Brown

A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.

In the beginning there were two sisters. One of them was a runaway drug addict. The other one was pregnant out of wedlock with a man she has no contact with, whilst her husband has been missing for seven years. Ok, so the beginning of this film does NOT prepare you for what you’re about to see. It starts of all realistic and the relationship between the sisters is well-established. When the one sister (Courtney Bell) has to sign the Absentia papers, she starts seeing horrible visions of her husband, but this is only just the beginning of the nightmare that unfolds. This is a truly scary and creepy film and I won’t spoil the ending. The film is completely unpredictable and things go very wrong after the halfway mark. This is a must-see film. The cast was very good and credible. Notably, I thought Morgan Peter Brown was very good as the disappeared husband.

‘Absentia’ won several awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Narrative Feature, Best Horror Feature, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound.