Saint Maud review, Culture Whisper
Religion can be scary, which is why horror movies love it so much. Gods and devils and angels and demons stir the depths of the soul or an idea of the soul, wracked as it is with the ambiguities between good and evil. More often than not, these stories grapple with the truth and legitimacy of faith.
There’s no fear of that with Saint Maud’s title character, at least not at first. Maud (Morfydd Clarke) is a private care worker who’s recently converted to Christianity, tending to an ex-dancer with Stage 4 lymphoma. But more than brutal theology and spiky sado-masochism, which the trailers rely on, this is a film about intense loneliness and its effect on mental health.
