A cinema release has been announced for spooky psychological-or-is-it-reincarnation* drama Here Before, about a bereaved mother becoming obsessed with the daughter of her new neighbours.
* not sure which, I haven’t watched the actual film yet.
Andrea Riseborough plays Laura and Jonjo O’Neill her husband Brendan, a couple whose own daughter Josie died a few years before. Meghan (Niamh Dornan) moves in next door with her mother Marie (Eileen O’Higgins), but is soon claiming to have been… dun dun duh! here before. Is she the reincarnation of Laura and Brendan’s dead daughter come home? Laura thinks yes! Brendan says no.
As of this second I have no idea, but I’m off to watch it right now.
Here’s the full synopsis:
When a new family moves in next door to Laura and her family, their young daughter, Megan (Dornan), quickly captivates her, stirring up painful memories of her own daughter, Josie, who died several years previously. Before long, Laura’s memories turn to obsession as Megan’s unsettling behaviour begins to convince her of something supernatural. As Laura’s determination to get to the bottom of it becomes all consuming, her family begins to fracture and the line between the extraordinary and the real becomes ever more obscured in this haunting story about a mother’s love.
Check out the trailer below. Here Before is in UK cinemas from Friday 18 February, and will also be available from Curzon Home Cinema on the same day. Here Before is the debut feature from Belfast-born writer/director Stacey Gregg. It had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival last year, subsequently screening at numerous festivals including the Belfast International Film Festival and the Galway Film Fleadh, where it picked up the Best International Feature Award.