After her husband’s death, Harper travels from London to the countryside, hoping to relax in nature and recuperate. While walking through the woods, she stumbles upon a mysterious tunnel, where she awakens someone or something that begins to haunt her.

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To be honest, I got into this movie completely by accident. Difficulties of translation. In Turkish the title sounded like Adamlar, and Google kindly offered me the answer in the form of the sci-fi film “Project Adam” starring Ryan Reynolds. So you could say that my viewing of this British novelty was completely chilling. I had no idea what the movie was about or even what genre it was.

But the beginning of the picture was extremely intriguing. A woman with a broken nose looks out the window and sees a man flying down from the other side of that very window. And they even meet each other’s eyes for a split second. Later we learn that this man is the husband of this woman named Harper. Now a widow, she decides to rent a house in a remote and secluded English village in order to recover a little.

The description claims it is horror and sci-fi. However, in my opinion it is a psychological drama of pure water, just presented in a mystical way.

The director of the picture, Alex Garden, is quite famous. He is the one who wrote the script and directed such iconic pictures as “Out of the Machine” and “Annihilation,” and also wrote the scripts for “The Beach,” “28 Days Later,” “Don’t Let Me Go” and many others. All of his films feature strong female characters who suffer from male violence – physical or psychological. And this film is no exception.

Imagine you are married and want to divorce your own husband (probably not from a good life). Over the course of several years of marriage, you watch as the man you once loved is reborn and becomes a nasty person with silly jokes, a child with a dirty mouth, a lustful saint, and at the end, a real aggressor. And if you don’t fall for these games, you’re a “bitch,” period. That being said, the goal of all this is “love.” He wants to be loved for nothing, turning a blind eye to all his antics.

Now imagine all this rebirth happening not in a metaphorical way, but in a real way. That’s exactly what Alex Garden decided to do and showed all the filth of the human soul with vivid and, in places, nauseating visual images.

I can hardly recommend this picture for viewing to anyone. And it is not even about the level of disgustingness, which in some places outdoes Nikolos Winding Refn in his “Dealer 3” and “Too Old to Die Young”. The plot develops very leisurely, and what happens on the screen is so confusing and incomprehensible that only the most steadfast movie buffs can endure such a thing.

But what you definitely can’t deny this novelty is the beauty of the exposition, the editing and the title actress. Britain’s Jessie Buckley is incredibly good. She has one of those faces that you want to watch without tearing away. It lives on screen and pulls off close-ups even without a drop of makeup. She shades all the ugliness of the male species in an incredible way.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (67.1 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio
German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, German.