In the middle of nowhere stands a lone house safeguarded by a mother and her twin sons who appear to live alone in the isolated woodlands without a single soul for miles. Or for years. The trio appear to be the last remains of humanity after what seems to be the end of the world. To protect themselves against an ancient evil that lurks in the world, they must tether their bodies to the house using rope, creating a physical connection to the lodge that will keep them safe as long as they never let go of the line.
But a mysterious malevolent force even more destructive than the mysterious danger of the woods creeps into the minds of the children and creates distance between the protective matriarch and her twin sons: doubt.
Part dark fantasy, part classic cabin-in-the-woods horror story, Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go is a post-apocalyptic thriller starring Oscar-winner Halle Berry as a cautious caregiver who carefully binds her progeny to her cabin in hopes of outwitting the evil that hunts them. Toying with the audience through a possible unreliable narrator paired with eerie, unfamiliar surroundings, Never Let Go plays with the current trend of monster movie tropes that rely on in-universe rules to set the horror narrative but adds a few grimdark elements to raise the creep factor and offer a completely unique tale of terror.
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