The Ones Below Cinema Release Date

The London upper middle classes are finely dissected in this debut film by David Farr, featuring two couples, both expecting – leading to enormous audience unease.

David Farr takes the giddy, heady days of early motherhood—the frustration and isolation, the exhaustion and confusion—and mines them for creepy, paranoid thrills in “The Ones B...

Hate thy neighbor.

Toward the end, Mr. Farr employs familiar cinematic sleights of hand, but with a finely calibrated touch. The final shot is sublime in its perversity.

While “The Ones Below” doesn’t make it over the finish line, Farr shows good instincts, and has an ease for creating tension without overt manipulation.

And this surreal impression of doom is un-lanced by the anticlimactic ending, in which seeds of destruction bloom with chilling inevitability.

Horror movie ‘The Ones Below’ shows the dark side of motherhood.

In David Farr’s debut feature, the friendship between pregnant neighbors turns ominous.

The third act goes overboard, too, sapping the film of its simmering ambiguity with a need to explain absolutely everything.

If you can’t guess where The Ones Below is going, you’re probably one of its characters

So exacting and severe, we see the strings and grow bored of their inevitability.

Ultimately, Farr bets all his chips on a series of third-act rug pulls that seem totally ridiculous at first blush and only mildly ridiculous at second.