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Michelle Laine's brilliant costume design provides a neat aesthetic link between animation and live action.

Its use of blood and slime and razor teeth is more inventive than a 12-year-old needs watch.

It is by turns sad and disturbing - with occasional bouts of highly dubious dark humour.

With a slender premise, set up and resolution, the fact that its small ideas can resonate so well afterwards is a minor triumph.

Griffiths enjoys showing us the particulars of Ellie's life and it doesn't feel like exposition though it might look a little ersatz.

Director Celia Rowlson-Hall, a dancer and choreographer, is able to make visible through movement what harms the soul.

What starts as an almost domestic story involving a couple of low-rent hoods will gradually morph into a game of high stakes with unlikely players and a plotline that takes its cue from events in the real world full of corporate rather than card sharks.

The directors, Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, avoid horror comic clichés. In fact, they avoid clichés altogether.

Gene Jones makes one of the most enigmatic and appalling cult leaders you'll ever see.

In general, the action feels either overly restrained or pushed too far, with Adler rarely finding the sweet spot in between.

The subject of understanding and mystery prove a sticking point, with the film remaining so wilfully opaque that it is more frustrating than rewarding by the end credits.

For better and worse the majority of the action is dominated by Step Up 3D wonder-woman Sharni Vinson, an impressive physical presence as Erin but not exactly the world's greatest actress.