Chloe Sevigny and Jena Malone play sisters whose mother has just died in this indie, the latest in a genre I’d like to call “deathcore,” where characters flail around inarticulately after someone passes away.
Sevigny’s Emma gets a strange call from a psychic who advises that her mother will come back, prompting Emma to leave the body in their woodsy family home just in case. Malone’s Angela is skeptical, but finds herself distracted by a hot stranger (Luke Grimes) who’s been hanging around the neighborhood.
Director M. Blash (“Lying”) focuses on the haunting beauty of the everyday, a la “American Beauty” or “Donnie Darko,” and his setting of the film against the backdrop of a looming forest fire yields arresting shots of crop-dusters painting lines of crimson across the sky, and one of a horse accidentally dyed red. But the dialogue is so vague, and the plot so minimal, it all feels like a rather pointless exercise.