Review of Relic (2020) by K. Austin Collins for Vanity Fair — 06 Aug 2020

It’s a horror movie that delays the big scares, foregoes a clean pursuit of answers, and instead piles on details that may or may not “mean” anything. They appear onscreen with a saggy and somewhat overburdened sense of psychological import, pointing toward the broader implications of what’s at play here: a matriarch’s possible dementia, for example.

What they really evoke is the richer, more involved and chilling story this movie seems to want to be.