The Banishing (2013)
Two sisters decide to take the supernatural into their own hands.
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Let's be realistic.
brilliant actors, brilliant editing
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Two sisters decide to take the supernatural into their own hands.Director Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen (who apparently divides his time between Iceland and the United States) has made a small, hard-hitting masterpiece with "The banishing". Not unlike the short for "Mama", we have an eerie little tale of young sisters and a ghostly, invisible woman. Both are excellent in their own ways.This short has solid acting, wonderful directing, some scares... and an impressive level of production value. If someone said this was a Hollywood production, most audiences would believe it. The stumbles and holes usually found in independent, low-budget productions are completely missing here.Thoroddsen is (as of 2015) hard at work on a feature-length version of his short "Child Eater". Few films are more anticipated.