Behind You

8/25/2022

Behind You has elements of The Exorcist, Child's Play, Signs, and even Beetlejuice, but it's also, to my knowledge, the first horror film in which an evil spirit is held off with peanut butter, and that, for better or worse, is something you don't see every day. Olivia (Addy Miller) and Claire (Elizabeth Birkner) are two young sisters whose mother has just died in an unspecified accident, and whose father apparently went out to buy the proverbial pack of smokes and never came back. Consequently the two girls are sent to live with their strange Aunt Beth (Jan Broberg), who may or may not have murdered her other sister (i.e., not the girls' mother) Angela in a prologue set 40 years in the past. Aunt Beth has several rules, the most important of which is not to go down into the basem