Film & Television
John Maguire: A sinister ‘Mary Poppins’ comes visiting in disturbing folk horror tale
A wealthy woman who seemingly has it all collapses with a mysterious illness in an intriguing, metaphoric story of the first world’s exploitation of developing nations
Though not as familiar as its antonym, Nocebo is a real medical term for a non-effective treatment that psychosomatically harms a person and the perfect title for Irish writing and directing team Garret Shanley and Lorcan Finnegan’s latest horror in which a woman traumatised by guilt is manipulated by folk magic into confronting her past. The treatment is mysterious, painful, but undoubtedly effective and stands as a grim metaphor for the first world’s exploitation of ...
