20 Greatest Horror Villains Of The 2020s (So Far)

Danny and Michael Philippou's Bring Her Back is a bleak examination of grief in which a bereaved mother, Laura (Sally Hawkins), attempts to enact a demonic resurrection ritual on one of her foster children in order to bring her late daughter back to life.

Sally Hawkins gives a phenomenal, Oscar-worthy performance as Laura, a character who has suffered devastating loss, as makes her innately sympathetic, if not for the fact that her obsession with bringing her child back from death has overridden all other logic.

Laura's increasingly uneasy and erratic behaviour is deeply discomforting to watch, until it explodes into outright murder in the final stretch once her carefully laid plan begins to unfurl.

The result is a mesmerising turn from Hawkins, who has helped create one of the most unhinged horror villains of this year or any other, even if the film never strays too far from the overpowering sadness at the core of her dysfunction.