The Unfamiliar

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	Jemima West	Elizabeth (Izzy) Cormack
	Christopher Dane	Ethan Cormack
	Rebecca Hanssen	Emma Cormack
	Rachel Lin	Auntie Mae
	Harry McMillan-Hunt	Tommy Cormack
	Tori Butler-Hart	Receptionist
	Ben Lee	Richard Turner
	Guy Warren-Thomas	Hugh Turner
	Beatrice Woolrych	Lilly Cormack (Baby)
	Nala	Petey (Dog)
	Elsa	Petey (Dog)
	Anna Wolf	Kaimoni Demon Voice

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Director	Henk Pretorius
Writer	Henk Pretorius, Jennifer Nicole Stang
Producer	Reinhard Besser, Tori Butler-Hart, Nic Evans, Llewelynn Greeff, Gareth Jones, Barend Kruger, Walter Mair, Henk Pretorius, Ana Marina Smith-Suarez, Jennifer Nicole Stang
Musician	Walter Mair
Photography	Pete Wallington

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My quick rating - 5.4/10. The story has a bunch of "convenience" caked into it but one thing it does have. It is creepy when it needs to be. A woman comes home from war and is suffering from PTSD, but the problem is that there may be something else going on around her that isn't all in her head. The issue in this movie that keeps it from rising above mediocre is that what is going on gets revealed way too early along and after that you are kind of just wading through recycled scenes you have seen done better and FAR worse before. The acting and the story really are quite good, even if it isn't anything new. My biggest negative is the convenience I spoke of. The "hey, wouldn't it be handy if you knew how to perform an exorcism?" and the first person you ask says "YES". At least now with the new horror movies revolving around memes turned murder, they go and look the shit up in how to do things. This movie acts like it is common knowledge. But that irk to me may not bug you, and it is fine. The movie itself pushes the right buttons and is entertaining enough.

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