In "Substitution. Bring Her Back," the Philippou brothers happily renew the codes of the horror film.

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After the sudden death of their father, a visually impaired teenager, Piper (Sora Wong), and her brother Andy (Billy Barratt) are taken into the home of a woman, Laura (Sally Hawkins). She is a former psychological counselor who lost her blind daughter a few years earlier, accidentally drowning in the swimming pool. Laura has also taken in a shy and mute young boy, Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). Several strange or trivial details imperceptibly cast doubt on the true intentions of this adoptive mother, who is far too loving and caring to be honest.

Little by little, Laura tries, by all sorts of means, to distance Andy from his sister while Oliver shows incomprehensible and increasingly threatening behavioral problems and long-repressed bad family memories resurface.

The Philippou brothers, who made Substitution. Bring Her Back , became known on YouTube by making short film parodies under the pseudonym RackaRacka. Their first feature film, The Hand , had already been noted for the way in which they managed to connect the conventions of cinematic horror to a psychological origin, occultism and reason, bringing back, without denying it, the supernatural to a form of rational causality. This second opus, which takes the form of a perverse fairy tale, therefore testifies to the very personal path they are currently tracing.

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