Film Review – The Ones Below

Writer/director David Farr goes the Roman Polanski route with “The Ones Below,” and it’s an ideal match of filmmaking appetites. Filled with tension and unease, the feature shows surprising edge with its depiction of new parent paranoia, delivering darkness with special care from Farr, who preserves the psychological abyss the screenplay develops throughout the movie without slipping into mean-spirited violence. Supremely chilling and effectively slow-burn, “The Ones Below” isn’t about monsters or mayhem, but the creaky moments of blurred reality and suspicion, with Farr extracting superb suspense out of what’s really a minimal exercise in screen agitation. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com