What if your horror obsession became your survival guide?
Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by nice neighbours. But Paula's view of normality has been sharpened by her extensive and consistent diet of horror movies.
Direction
Gödrös balances deadpan absurdity with genuine teenage ache
Acting
Teska's feral, knowing performance—think Thirteen meets Let the Right One In
Director
Katalin Gödrös
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Austria's early-2000s 'new weird' wave alongside Haneke and Seidl, though Gödrös brings rare female perspective to teenage female monstrosity.
The swimming pool sequence was shot in an actual abandoned pool with freezing water—Teska's genuine shivering was captured on camera.
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