This is a movie about a psychological abuser who controls and dominates the woman he groomed as a teenager. Tim Roth captures the creepy, controlling energy of the covert narcissist to perfection. He knows what buttons to push and how to pull the strings of his enabler. When she was a young girl completely in his thrall, she falls pregnant. The baby boy isn't welcomed by its father, whose narcissistic condition demands full possession of the main character played by Rebecca Hall, so he kills the child. It's intimated that the baby was cooked and eaten, and Roth's character tracks Hall's character down and tells her the child is still alive within him, a twisted abhorrent pregnancy that needs its mother. Once more Hall's character feels her sanity slipping away, the familiar tell tale hallmarks of abuse - gaslighting, triangulation, coercion.

Many reviews just don't get the ending. But I saw it as Hall immersed in the safety of her subconscious, her murdered baby resurrected, her daughter home, everything normal and safe. As the camera pans in the golden comforting light dims and Hall's expression begins to change intimating that she's living in a world of her own creation.

This was a more than just a horror film. It lifts the hatch on the darkest human emotions.

I read some reviews here, many people say it doesn't make sense. Come on people you can do better than that.

This is a woman with a deeply repressed trauma, which was induced by a sadistic sociopath when she was 18 years old. That person had her under mental and emotional control. She was brainwashed by that person. He was her first "love" and older as her. He abused that to control her and to torture her mentally. He even killed her baby which was from him. He said, that he ate it and he has the baby inside his stomach now. Is there a more painful trauma that a 18 years old girl could bear? 20 years later, he returns and what has been repressed for 20 years is getting reactivated. All of the repressed mental pain and her desperation is back. That poor women is going insane due to her reactivated trauma.

The ending scenes: Hallucinating is a natural response to unbearable pain and desperation, it is a selfprotection-mechanism of the human mind when mental and physical pain is getting more than a person can stand. This is what is happening to her. The moment, when she is listening at his stomach and when she hears her baby crying is the moment, when she starts hallucinating. She kills him (for real) in order to get her baby out of his stomach. The baby is alive (which is a hallucination). IMPORTANT HINT IN THE MOVIE: the camera filter switches to blur and bright. Which means, that a near death experience is starting. Because she is deadly injured due to the fight before. So she is dying as well and the last things she is aware of, are these hallucinations, like a near death experience which is: being happy again, with her baby alive in her arms. If she is indeed dying in the end or if she is getting rescued, isn't clear. All we can see, is that she suddenly is taking a deep breath.

'Resurrection' is the type of film that makes me really miss the IMDb message boards. I used to love the discussion and theories thrown about on ambiguous films like this one. There's a lot going on in this one and it isn't always clear what is real and what is not.

The film reminded me of another 2022 film 'Men'. It was done in a different way (for the most part) but had similar themes and messages. That one was a little more in your face with its message, whereas 'Resurrection' holds its cards a little closer to its chest.

I couldn't complete this review without mentioning Rebecca Hall. She may just be the best actress working at the moment. She is so captivating to watch. She has all the gears too. Her character has a massive arc in this film and she nails every stage of it. She has an 8 minute dialogue at one point that is mesmerising to watch.

I really enjoyed this film. There will be some who find they don't get enough answers. But equally there will be plenty of audience members who like the idea of putting the puzzle together themselves. I recommend checking this one out. 8/10.