MOVIE REVIEW: We try to avoid being hexed as we check out supernatural horror 'The Accursed'

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We’ve all had a fallout with friends but it doesn’t normally end in us placing a deadly curse over their family’s head. That’s the intriguing premise of horror flick The Accursed as Yancy Butler’s Hana tries to continue to suppress the 20-year supernatural hex threatening her bloodline as her son Petar (George Harrison Xanthis) returns home to get married.

Writers and directors Kathryn Michelle and Elizabeta Vidovic, making their full-length feature debuts, do well to set up an impending sense of dread and doom within a small farmhouse location.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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The cast all contribute fine work too. The concern Butler’s Hana has for her loved ones oozes out of her every pore and Goran Visnjic displays restrained edginess and quiet hope as her husband Nikola .