‘Mia’
Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime Video.
The writer-director Luis Ferrer has guts. Not the red and viscous kind you usually see in horror, but the kind it takes to make a deeply unsettling psychological thriller that embraces being small and speaks in silence and whispers, not screams.
In the nearly wordless opening stretch of “Mia,” we watch as Aaron (Shah Motia), a middle-aged drifter, nervously tools around small-town streets before tailing Brenda (Julie Lucido) and her teenage daughter, Emma (Emiliana Jasper) to the motel where they’re staying. Aaron soon abducts Emma, an attack that takes place on the margins of the frame, as do many other scenes in this disorienting and confined-feeling film.
Aaron thinks the girl is Mia, the daughter he’s been desperately searching for since she was kidnapped 12 years earlier. Emma thinks he’s crazy — until she starts to wonder if perhaps he’s right. Whose memory is right? I won’t say more because the surprises of this humanely observed and tenderly acted two-hander are best experienced cold.
‘The North Witch’
The director Bruce Wemple blends horror genres — isolation, survival, occult, folk and even found footage — to deliver a macabre tale of witchcraft set in the wilderness.
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