It's one thing to have a family business where everyone goes and works at the restaurant or retail store or becomes a lawyer and joins the family practice. It's another thing to get the whole family involved in a tale of utter psychological terror, where they're all--including the young daughter--more or less playing themselves. Luciferous is exactly that other thing. And it's pretty excellent. This is the first full-length feature for Mahsa Ghorbankarimi and Alexander Gorelick, but you really wouldn't know it until right at the end of the film. It's a slow build to full-steam-ahead terror, but every step of the way it's a believable story of either supernatural predation or pure mental breakdown. With everyone playing themselves, the relationship dynamics are believable and what would otherwise be bad dialog reads true to who these … Continue reading →