Horror Myths & Legends DVD (2019) Essie Davis, Kent (DIR) cert 15 3 discs Title: Horror Myths & Legends Leading Actor: Essie Davis Region: Region 2 Duration: 297 mins Format: DVD / Box Set Type: DVD No. of Discs: 3 disc(s) Studio / Publisher: Elevation Sales UK Release Date: 14 Oct 2019 Edition: Box Set Collection of three horrors. In ‘The Babadook’ (2014) Amelia (Essie Davis), a grieving single mother, grows to resent her difficult son Samuel (Noah Wiseman) in the wake of her husband’s death six years previously. As well as having to deal with Samuel constantly getting into trouble at school, things become even more tense at home when he begins having disturbing visions of a threatening character from his storybook ‘The Babadook’. Becoming more frightened by Samuel’s visions, Amelia also begins having similar experiences, and she starts to believe that there may be more to the hallucinations than she initially thought… In ‘It Follows’ (2014) Maika Monroe stars as 19-year-old Jay who, after a sexual encounter with her boyfriend, finds that a mysterious curse has been passed on to her. As she begins to experience terrifying visions and the feeling that she is being followed wherever she goes, she turns to her group of close friends for help. Can they solve the mystery of the deadly curse before it’s too late? Finally, in ‘Let Me In’ (2010) Kodi Smit-McPhee stars as Owen, a solitary 12-year-old in 1980s Mexico who is continually tormented by a gang of bullies. When the enigmatic Abby (Chlo? Grace Moretz) moves in next door, the two form an unlikely friendship that will change Owen’s life forever as it emerges that Abby is a 200-year-old vampire, frozen in childhood and condemned to live on a diet of fresh human blood. With Abby on his side, Owen is finally able to face up to the bullies - but Abby’s unquenchable thirst for blood gives rise to a fresh set of problems.
