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Film Review - Hallow Road

Film Review - Hallow Road

An agreeably stressful psychological horror-thriller from Babak Anvari, featuring the brilliant Rosamund Pike

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May 19, 2025
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If you’re a horror fan and haven’t seen Under the Shadow (2016), you need to correct that oversight immediately. Babak Anvari’s supernatural spine-freezer doubled as a feminist critique of fundamentalist Islam and knocked my socks off nine years ago. His latest, Hallow Road, is almost as good. Featuring superb central performances from …

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