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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Leslie Felperin

Mother of Flies review – horror in the woods as house guests are microdosed with psychedelics

Solveig with a black shawl over her head sits in the dark behind a table on which lie various animal skulls or horns
Witchy woman … Toby Poser as Solveig in Mother of Flies. Photograph: Shudder

If you are a certain kind of parent who likes folk-horror films, crafting with the kids, and unusual family road trips, then perhaps images from the work of the ultra-cool Adams-Poser family, a clan comprising upstate New York hepcat parents (Toby Poser and John Adams) and their hepkitten kids (Zelda and Lulu Adams), might be on your mood board. This film-making family multitasks above and beyond, serving not just as

co-directors, co-writers, producers and stars, but also operating the camera and making the costumes. The results are genuinely striking, professional and effective (especially in terms of scare-generation). And if the scripts are often a smidge pretentious, they are never less than interesting and always original.

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