“It was all Rebecca, we just turned on the camera and recorded what she came to us with – and it was always powerful”: Andrew Semans on Resurrection

Resurrection is Andrew Semans’s new psychological horror starring Rebecca Hall. When it comes to 2022’s most out-there final acts, it’s neck and neck with Alex Garland’s Men.

Hall stars as Margaret, a seemingly affluent and impeccably in-control single mother of a teenage daughter (Grace Kaufman), living in New York. Despite her tough, lean appearance, competence in her high-flying biotech job and perfect want-for-nothing life, something unsettling seems to be simmering underneath Margaret’s varnished veneer. And when a figure from her past (a startlingly chilling Tim Roth) starts to appear in unexpected places, that something unsettling spills over into a visceral manifestation of anxiety, and an unravelling of untold proportions. On one level, it’s an unnervingly realistic depiction of the crippling dread one can feel when becoming a parent, and the perversely intoxicating power of psychological manipulation and control; on another, its heightened nature takes the audience on a far more metaphorical, existential journey.

The Upcoming had the pleasure of speaking with the director at Sundance London about the inspiration behind the script, casting and working with the phenomenal Hall and how he hopes the film can be quasi-therapeutic for viewers.

Sarah Bradbury

Resurrection is available digitally on demand on 5^th December 2022. Read our review here.

Watch a trailer for Resurrection here: