Bring Her Back

The Philippou brothers' second, and considerably harder to sit through than Talk to Me.

A half-brother and sister are placed with a foster carer after their father's death. She has another child already. She has lost a daughter.

Sally Hawkins is the reason to watch and the reason it is difficult: she plays Laura as warm, funny and disarming, and the film keeps her sympathetic long past the point where the audience knows what she is doing.

The brothers' method is intact from the first film, which is to establish real grief and then refuse to let the horror be an escape from it.

There is a sequence involving a boy and a kitchen that is among the most upsetting things in recent horror, and it is filmed without any cutting away.

The blind sister and the videotapes are the structural spine. Do not put this on lightly.