Nasty, vindictive, bullying, relentless… no, not a particular world leader we can’t seem to banish from our collective consciousness right now. This is John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, the care home resident from hell in Kiwi director James Ashcroft’s almost blood-free but gorgeously grotesque psychological horror.
Lithgow, arguably, was the weakest link in the fantastic Conclave ensemble (way less convincing than Fiennes, Tucci, Rossellini et al), so this is a welcome return to chilling evil, which the 79-year-old does with such gusto — see his Trinity Killer in Dexter or multiple lunatics in Brain De Palma’s Raising Cain from 1991.
