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Alice (Maura Stephens) has just been left by her boyfriend (Patrick
Sutters) and is positively shattered. Thing is, she expects his baby and
he is not up for that. She promises to abort though to get him back, but
it's less than likely that she'll go through with it - but he seems
receptive again. And then there's a knock on the door, a door-to-door
salesman (Jurgen Vollrath). In a seemingly unconnected story, several
women who were last seen walking home alone have turned up dead, their
bodies dumped in the local river ... A horror miniature that's
basically proof that suspense done the Hitchcockian style works today just
as well as it did 50 or so years ago if only done right: This movie
doesn't show any violence, doesn't directly hint at any violence,
isn't in its core about anything remotely violent (anti-abortionists might
disagree, but I'm not talking about that here, and the film does not make
a statement for or against abortion), and there are no jump scares here,
no effects that suggest anything whatever - and yet the film is creepy as
heck, getting all its tension out of proper filmmaking and clever
story-telling, and in essence getting very lot out of seemingly very
little. Basically, a film that will give you nightmares from what it
doesn't show - and that's quite the achievement!
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