An eerie, folk horror-adjacent drama drenched in the bleak, eternally grey atmosphere of the Slovakian wilderness, Nightsiren begins as a young woman, Sarlota (Natalia Germani) reluctantly returns to the tiny, remote village where she spent her early years. A brief prologue hints at Sarlota's tortured past, and a traumatic incident that caused her to run away, only to be beckoned home by a mysterious letter to inherit her late mother's assets. Sarlota's return is met with air of quiet (and unquiet) violence from the surrounding townsfolk, in part because many of the villagers suspect her mother of having been a witch, and harbor the same unjustified suspicions about her daughter. Answers are in short supply, such as to why Sarlota's mother's house was burned down, or the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of her younger sister, who fell into a ravine when they were children. Only Mira (Eva Mores), a free-spirited and iconoclastic young woman, seems willing to help Sarlota's case, and the two quickly form an intense, almost spiritual bond.
Review of Nightsiren
