Martha Marcy May Marlene

Martha Marcy May Marlene

You can get away. But you can never escape.

Rating

3.5 (1)

Release Date

10/21/2011

Runtime

101 mins

Overview

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,000,000

Revenue

$3,500,000

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A slow-burning psychological thriller that traps you inside the fractured mind of a cult survivor, where the past bleeds relentlessly into the present, and safety, even in a quiet home, never quite feels real.

Mood

ParanoidUnsettlingDread-soakedMelancholic

Themes

FamilyIdentityIsolation

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Sexual violenceChild endangermentAddiction

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