The Nest (2020)

The title, from the start, is a clever way to keep audiences guessing, hinting as it does at slimey masses of eggs of some sort of weird alien family, while the initial set-up is horror-home stuff - an entrepreneur moves his family from the US to London, into an old country manor a la Amityville Horror; halfway through, I stopped to google whether I was watching an adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'Endless Night', and along the way was reminded of 'Arbitrage', 'The Devil's Advocate', that awful 'Saltburn'...but this not knowing exactly what you are getting with 'The Nest' is what keeps the exceptionally well-acted, handsomely produced Canadian thriller razorwire sharp, taut.

★★★★☆

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