PREVIEW: You Are Not My Mother (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Hazel Doupe (Float Like a Butterfly), Carolyn Bracken (A Date for Mad Mary), Paul Reid (The Ritual), Jade Jordan (Rosie), Ingrid Craigie (The Dead), Jordanne Jones (Metal Heart), Katie White (This Day), Aoife Spratt (Trampoline), Lucie Doran (film debut), Martin O’Sullivan (Red Room), Miriam Devitt (Soulsmith), Florence Adebambo (film debut), Colin Peppard (film debut), Madi O’Carroll (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Kate Dolan (film debut), director, writer; Deirdre Levins (Vivarium), producer; Die Hexen (A Bump Along the Way), composer; Narayan Van Maele (Gutland), cinematographer; John Cutler (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Char (Doupe), a teenage girl, finds that her mother Angela (Bracken) has suddenly gone missing, only for her to return during the night without explanation. Immediately recognising that her mother is not who she once was, Char and her grandmother Rita (Craigie) must try and find a way to save her, even if it means losing her forever…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Mother doesn’t exactly know best in this creepy psychological horror from debut filmmaker Kate Dolan, who announces herself with a real firecracker of a genre film.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 8TH APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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