‘Hallow Road’ Review: Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys Are on a Long Road to Nowhere in Babak Anvari’s Minimalist Horror Movie

‘Hallow Road’ Review: Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys Are on a Long Road to Nowhere in Babak Anvari’s Minimalist Horror Movie

Minimalist, two-hander, nearly single-location horror-thrillers that unfold in real time can — and should — take any number of formal and narrative liberties, but it’s crucial that they use them to take us all the way to the place they have in mind. The latest film by British-Iranian director Babak Anvari (“Under the Shadow”) only gets us halfway before it gets lost in a fog of its own elevated ideas. The story of two out-of-sync parents flying …

Hallow Road Review: Rosamund Pike Stars in Perfect Nightmare

The worst nightmares are the ones you can believe in. They feature the people you love in your life—and sometimes the people you fear. And no matter how weird or unforgiving they become, the reason they linger into your waking life is because you recognize the truth beneath the unreality. Nine years after a similarly merciless feature debut, Under the Shadow, director Babak Anvari has again crafted exactly such a torment in Hallow Road, a relent…