The New Daughter

The New Daughter

How Far Will A Father Go To Protect The Ones He Loves?

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

12/18/2009

Runtime

108 mins

Overview

John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

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A slow-building horror film where a father's protective instincts collide with something ancient and unknowable lurking beneath his family's new home. The mounting dread is as much about the fracture of family bonds as it is about external supernatural threats.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedTenseMournful

Themes

FamilyIdentityComing of ageGrief

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceChild endangerment

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