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Make Up review – wintry chills in a spooky seaside thriller – The Guardian
A teenager encounters ghostly goings-on and sexual intrigue at an out-of-season caravan park in a stylish psychological drama
The out-of-season holiday resort, like the abandoned city or ruined temple, has something fascinating and even erotic in its emptiness. Writer-director Claire Oakley taps into this mood for her debut feature, a psychological drama-thriller set in a wintry caravan park in St Ives, Cornwall. She has taken the template of arthouse Brit realism and audaciously spiked it with some genre thrills, as if Ken Loach collaborated with Brian De Palma or Nicolas Roeg. With cinematographer Nick Cooke, Oakley …
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