RT Rating: 83% It's rare nowadays that any horror film challenges the audience to watch through their fingers, but Austrian chiller Goodnight Mommy managed it with aplomb and left some significant wounds along the way. The film, which was marketed on the rather charitable "scariest film ever" tagline, boasts a triumphant twist that is as unexpected as it is successful (though some might have spotted some The Others-like clues) but the journey to that revelation is dripping with dread and is brilliantly complex, so the twist doesn't become its only currency in hindsight. Playing on elemental fears like abandonment and identity crisis, it is suspenseful, creepy and ultimately heartbreaking and it legitimately deserves to be considered one of the best - and certainly the most disquieting - foreign language film of the year.
