Mike Flanagan’s debut full-length horror feature is a triumph of low-budget cinema. Two sisters begin to suspect that a creepy tunnel in their neighborhood may be harboring a horrifying secret which may have to do with the disappearance of the eldest sister’s husband seven years earlier. Fully utilizing its small and talented cast, Absentia works as a wonderful character study about family and grief. But when it wants to terrify, it shows you just how far you can push the limits of your budget with a masterful manipulation of sound and visual design. It slowly turns up the unease until it becomes near unbearable. Flanagan has gone on to show just how amazing of a filmmaker he is with a string of great horror, including the game-changing The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix.
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