Watch Netflix Horror Movie from Amazon's Hanna Creator

Nowadays, the available streaming options and contradictory recommendations are so numerous that it's hard to see through all the bullshit you could watch. Every Friday, The edge & # 39;s The Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting out the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services and recommending just one perfect thing to watch this weekend.

What to watch

The below, psychological thriller of 2015 written and directed by prolific playwright, theater director and television producer David Farr. Clémence Poésy and Stephen Campbell Moore co-starred in the role of Kate and Justin, a happy, married and mobile British couple, who are about to have their first child when they will bond with each other. Friendship with their neighbors Jon and Theresa (played by David Morrissey and Laura Birn), who are also waiting. After a tragic accident at a dinner, a split is created between the two families, as Kate begins to suspect that Theresa is plotting to destroy her life.

Why look now?

Because the series of actions of Farr Hanna – based on the film of the same name, co-written by Farr and Seth Lochhead – will debut on Amazon Prime Video this weekend.

The film Hanna (realized by Pride and prejudice and Atonement director Joe Wright) did not have a lot of hype when he arrived in US and UK theaters in the spring of 2011, but he did quite well at the box office and started building more fans once he went home. . The taking of Amazon tells a more detailed version of the film's story about a girl named Hanna (Saoirse Ronan in the original, Esme Creed-Miles on TV), elevated in the coldness of northern Europe by a fugitive secret agent (Eric Bana in the movie screen, and Joel Kinnaman on the small) to be a ruthless killing machine.

This new Hanna replaces the flashy visual style of the film with more emphasis on character, extending the first commitment of a protected teenager to the civilized world (and with its mysterious nemesis, played on television by Mireille Enos) in long vignettes that explore his alienation and curiosity. Action fans may find the show a little slow and dark, but those who enjoy mature dramas should love how Creed-Miles (the daughter of accomplished actress Samantha Morton) makes the main character a tragic and friendly character who has spent all his life pion involuntarily in someone else 's game.

Photo: Magnolia Pictures

The first Hanna The script was written by Lochhead and edited by Farr, but he still shares common themes with Farr's television work. As a writer collaborator series like Spooks, emissions, McMafia, and Troy: Falling from a cityFarr often took the broad outlines of genre narratives – an espionage thriller, a science fiction drama, an international crime saga, a historic epic of action – and shaded it from the finer details of domestic concerns of the characters. He seems particularly drawn to stories about parenting and family ties and how they are affected by extreme situations of life or death.

The below This is Farr's only feature film to date as a director (and his only credit as a solo screenwriter), so maybe that's why it seems to be more about his concerns. themes. The characters in this movie – like many other Farr scripts – are clans and fiercely protect their own territory. Kate, Justin, Jon and Theresa are smart when they meet for the first time and commit to becoming friends. Once they disagree, they continue to smile when they meet in their building, but privately, Kate becomes paranoid because her neighbors intend to take everything she has, including his newborn baby.

For whom is this?

Fans of thrillers "parental anxiety" as Rosemary's Baby and The hand that cradles the cradle.

Photo: Magnolia Pictures

For the majority, The below has a modern look. The fashion and the venues are very 2015, and Farr and Ed Rutherford's director of photography keep the lighting pretty clear, avoiding deep shadows and splashes of vibrant colors. However, from time to time, Adem Ilhan scores peppers in scary "la la la la" and sometimes, Farr and Rutherford engage in short shots-zooms, like a horror movie of the late 1960s. intention seems to be to maintain the tension and shock of a clbadic image of suspense without venturing too far from reality. (At least not until the end, which becomes pretty wild.)

It is this plausibility factor that makes The below so effective. Kate feels growing anxiety about what she badumes – and not wrongly – is a strong hostility on the part of Jon and Theresa. A crying baby, a lack of sleep, the fear of not being a good mother and insufficient support from his wife further accentuate his stress. Throughout this story, Farr discovers the weak point between the justified fear of an extraordinary threat and what could be called daily maternal nerves.

Where to see it

Netflix. Oddly, the film version of Hanna is not available from any of the major subscription services at the moment – not even Amazon. Farr's adaptation to John the Square The night manager (realized by Bird boxSusanne Bier) is on Amazon. So is "Impossible Planet", an episode of the series of anthologies The electric dreams of Philip K. Dick that Farr wrote and directed.