Film Review: The Innocents unfolds like the best story Stephen King never wrote

One of the most unusual and challenging mainstream movies you’ll see this year

Morten Svartveit in The Innocents. Image: Signature Entertainment

★★★★★

Set on a Norwegian housing complex, which is a strange blend of pastoral setting and brutalist architecture, The Innocents (15A) opens in a rather disturbing fashion when the angelic-looking Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), bored on her summer holidays, begins pinching her autistic older sister Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramst), safe in the knowledge that Anna can’t protest or cry out.