Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-shortlisted for The Shape of Water and Blue Jasmine, Sally Hawkins really rolls the dice for her latest.
In Bring Her Back, she is cast against type in an Australian horror and delivers a performance for sibling directors Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) that's up there with her most acclaimed work - madness to put the wind up seasoned viewers of all things scary.
Foster parent Laura (Hawkins) agrees to take in siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) when their father dies unexpectedly.
Laura, who is also fostering the disturbed Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), is a bit off from the get-go, empathetic one minute and intimidating the next.
What's she up to? Well, no spoilers here, but if you want a thrill ride, you need to get round to Laura's place.
It's some ask to do deeply disturbing and darkly comic in the same movie, but the Philippou brothers pull it off, Danny Philippou's script with co-writer Bill Hinzman (they also collaborated on Talk to Me) delivering plenty of whiplash moments as the walls close in on Andy and Piper.
Hawkins is in the best of on-screen company. Barratt, an International Emmy winner at age 13 for the BBC Two film Responsible Child, deftly mixes bravery and bewilderment as Billy. Wong, who is visually impaired, had never acted before Bring Her Back but stakes her claim to a screen career with one of this century's standout debuts. As for Phillips, wow, it's incredible to see such presence in someone so young.
Bring Her Back has plenty of blood that it doesn't need, and there are two seriously far-fetched moments - involving a swimming pool and a freezer - even for horror, but apart from those gripes, it's another Aussie winnah.
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