There's someone else in your childhood home, my dear. Natalie Erica James broke into the world of horror with a non-standard full-length debut of “Relic”, but one of the very first steps was “Creswick”.
A carefully filmed sketch on the theme of nostalgia, loneliness and old age, in combination with which a quiet madness is born, and frightening visions of enemies almost turn into friends, is curious primarily by the injection of suspense, cinematography and acting organicity. Everything here is in its place, even though the true cause of the state of affairs will not be hummed and served on a platter.
This is not necessary: the first thing is to follow your own feelings that arise during the viewing. Behind the anxiety that comes out of nowhere and doesn't have the habit of talking about yourself. The nature of fear is in things quite ordinary, everyday, everyday. Memory, time, kinship, love for one’s neighbor, ghosts of the past in the web of the present, strange shadows, strange images, a strange need for trepidation before the unknown, which seems stronger and more powerful – this is what Natalie is dealing with. And, of course, the bitter realization that older people perceive the world in a completely different way: as if it is easier for them to go crazy than to remain the same.
Good work.
7 out of 10