I viewed Resurrection last night at the Sundance London UK premiere, complete with post-screening Q&A with Writer-Director Andrew Semans. I'm not normally a fan of horror films, but this piece stands out for originality, some great performances, and the well-crafted sterility of its Albany, NY setting. Rebecca Hall's gutsy, way-over-the-top performance as the main character is awesome, Grace Kaufman is perfect as her college-bound slacker daughter, and the two male leads are appropriately chilling and sympathetic respectively. In the flesh, Semans comes across as a mild-mannered professorial 40-year-old, with an odd predilection for shocking audiences. Here, he unleashes the mounting tension effectively, and then subjects us to a harrowing, and over-long, meltdown into frenzy. Product warnings- avoid consuming a big steak dinner prior to viewing, prepare to enter a fantasy world set in a bland think-tank environment, and remember you've already seen the worst bits in episodes of CSI! A fun evening at the cinema!

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