“Mitchum holds the screen in the palm of his hand without appearing to even try…”

“A thriller wafting on the fumes of the French New Wave…”

“… appears to owe a great debt to Otto Preminger’s Laura.”

“… a mildly amusing Agatha Christie adaptation.”

“… a sumptuously unsettling experience.”

“The movie’s religious curiosity is its hallmark.”

“The cinematography by Claire Mathon is stunning…”

“The score by Volker Bertelmann has moments that are the audio equivalent of your stomach dropping out.”

“A whiff of Hitchcock lingers around Echo Valley…”