Over in Hawkins, Millie Bobby Brown has faced numerous D&D-related horrors. In director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (28 Weeks Later) survival fantasy, a lone dragon proves equally problematic. True to form, Brown brings conviction to her stand-offs with an impressively realized creature, helping to lift their battle royale above the story’s bullet-point plotting.
Brown plays Elodie, a poor villager whose father (Ray Winstone) and stepmother (Angela Bassett) sell her into royal matrimony for gold. So far, so fairy tale. Yet what fire doth flicker on yonder hilltop? Before she can say "I don’t", Elodie is lobbed into the mountain catacombs as a sacrifice to a savage dragon – but she won’t burn easily.
