The movie is about Tess, a girl with mental instability. This girl decided to move to a new home with her mother, hoping for a new opportunity in her life. Tess seems to be still on a dark side as she faces more hallucinations of a dead girl who may be living inside.
Preoccupied with the haunting of both an individual and a community, Anguish has its creepy moments - but these are offset by an autumnal lyricism, and a focus on the interplay between Tess' teen alienation and her fraught attempts to find her place.
Anguish highlights four people in various degrees of mental and emotional pain, and while the narrative tissue here is a supernatural one the beating heart beneath it all is as real and affecting as they come.
This is a horror movie that starts with characters and then moves to scares, a rare thing these days, and because we do care for these characters so much, it's that much more terrifying when their very souls are at stake.
Stand[s] out from the glut of more recent horror efforts, particularly graphic and gruesome "torture porn"... A haunting and emotionally moving mood piece.
There's not much to be said about Sonny Mallhi's languid psychological drama - moonlighting as a possession-centered horror film - that hasn't already been said by the title.
