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Stillborn shocker
A psychological thriller conjures the paranoia and pressures of impending parenthood and then fails to deliver, says MARIA DUARTE

The Ones Below (15)
Directed by David Farr
2/5

OPENING with the creepy scan of a foetus staring ominously into the camera, The Ones Below fails to live up to its early promise of a dark and deliciously disturbing horror about the upper-middle classes.

Rosemary’s Baby or The Omen this ain’t.

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