Film Review – The Woman in the Yard

Director Jaume Collet-Serra is primarily known for creating pulse-pounding thrillers. He’s built an entire career making this stuff, recently coming off the monster streaming success of last year's “Carry-On,” which helped to boost his professional profile when it took a bit of a dive after the release of 2022’s “Black Adam.” Collet-Serra is now challenged to make something exciting out the small portions of story found in “The Woman in the Yard,” which is scripted by Sam Stefanak. It’s a modest tale of threat and mental health issues coming for a mother trying to protect her children from an undefined menace, and the whole experience remains in and around a single farmhouse for the 85-minute-long run time. “The Woman in the Yard” is being promoted as a fright film, and Collet-Serra certainly tries to work a few jolts into the flow of the offering, but the material is mostly about degrees of pain and regret, and while Stefanak attempts to get to the heart of his characters, he really doesn’t have much of a movie here. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com