This movie clearly didn't find its audience based on the reviews here, I'm only grateful my library had it and I found it there on a tour of horror films several years ago.
Reunion is a criminally underrated supernatural/psychological thriller --- intelligent and brilliant, thematically, visually and sonically.
The story here is about a daughter and her crazy mother.
The exceptional final act leaves us with some interpretations:
either, A., mom was genetically crazy and passed her insanity onto her daughter;
or, B., mom and dad were the genuine occult article and crazy mom is trying to prevent her daughter from inheriting their dangerous knowledge.
Of course, daughter is crazy too, but whether or not her craziness was genetically caused she was certainly pushed to it by her mother throughout her life.
We can, however, have some understanding (if not compassion) toward mother because we make the same mistakes.
We, too, have children as means to an end, to play god or in misguided attempts to improve our relationships with our spouses.
There's also the jealousy of infidelity --- here misplaced onto daughter's adopted sister.
Sister turns out to be not only a murder victim, but also one who had been molested by father.
What a glorious final fifteen minutes are presented here as everything comes together!
And a wonderful tour of a beautiful old house.
Reunion is a pure diamond in the rough, if you enjoyed this movie then please add your review to this here pile of soot so that this flick may shine and get seen by others!
Reunion is a criminally underrated supernatural/psychological thriller --- intelligent and brilliant, thematically, visually and sonically.
The story here is about a daughter and her crazy mother.
The exceptional final act leaves us with some interpretations:
either, A., mom was genetically crazy and passed her insanity onto her daughter;
or, B., mom and dad were the genuine occult article and crazy mom is trying to prevent her daughter from inheriting their dangerous knowledge.
Of course, daughter is crazy too, but whether or not her craziness was genetically caused she was certainly pushed to it by her mother throughout her life.
We can, however, have some understanding (if not compassion) toward mother because we make the same mistakes.
We, too, have children as means to an end, to play god or in misguided attempts to improve our relationships with our spouses.
There's also the jealousy of infidelity --- here misplaced onto daughter's adopted sister.
Sister turns out to be not only a murder victim, but also one who had been molested by father.
What a glorious final fifteen minutes are presented here as everything comes together!
And a wonderful tour of a beautiful old house.
Reunion is a pure diamond in the rough, if you enjoyed this movie then please add your review to this here pile of soot so that this flick may shine and get seen by others!