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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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