stunning and disturbing; As Maud's mental state spirals out of control, the film becomes both more surreal and more poetic, culminating in a shocking finale that sent a shiver through the Fantastic Fest audience
Rose Glass' taut and trembling "Saint Maud" transmutes a young woman's spiritual crisis into such a refined story of body horror that genre fans might feel like they're having a religious experience
redolent of a video-store shelf's worth of 1960s and '70s psychological horror thrillers, "Saint Maud" seeds the clouds with an eclectic mix of influences, but it works, creating a film with its own strange weather
"Saint Maud" is sanctimony made monstrous, complete with Possession-level freakouts and an ending for the ages. A powerful flex for first-time filmmaker Rose Glass
by Barry Hertz [The Globe and Mail ]
