‘Kindred’ Movie Review: Horror Flick Caught Copying Its Peers
British horror: an underdeveloped genre, if it is indeed a genre at all. The Woman in Black is, perhaps, its most notable member, and a number of films are cropping up these days determined to buff up the canon. Kindred undoubtedly has these lofty goals behind it.Tamara Lawrence stars as Charlotte, a young woman at odds with the stuffy family of her boyfriend Ben (Edward Holcroft). When the pair announce a move from rural England to Australia, Ben’s mother Margaret (Fiona Shaw) can’t seem to stomach the news, and an equally strange reaction from Margaret’s live-in stepson Thomas (Jack Lowden, ...