Solitary and germ - phobic, he encounters a young woman still more
terrified of human contact (Sylvia Hoeks), who hides in a secret room of her Versailles - scale villa, unwilling to be seen even by her own caretaker.
This year alone, they released six
of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two
terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale
of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so
human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make
contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.
Hundreds
of terrified ailing faces, imprisoned in their wire confines, some staring at me, but most too fearful to look into my eyes, so unsure
of how to interpret
human contact.