20 Great Performances Wasted In Terrible Horror Movies

It's frankly surprising that The Woman in the Yard wasn't adapted from a short film, because this absolutely has the energy of a film spun off from a tight, impactful short that just lacked the juice for the feature-length treatment.

It's a well made movie, but as ever there's no getting away from a script that just doesn't have much going on, either in terms of its limp scares or garden variety exploration of grief.

But why let that stop Danielle Deadwyler from putting on a veritable acting clinic regardless? 

She's absolutely magnificent, even hypnotic as protagonist Ramona - a widowed mother who psychologically disintegrates while facing off against the titular supernatural entity.

It's the sort of high-wire, intensely engrossing work that might've courted some awards buzz if the script powering it all wasn't quite so pedestrian. But in Deadwyler's hands she still manages to do something worthwhile with it, to her enormous credit.