“London can be a lot.”
Story: Eloise is a young and talented girl who’s just been accepted into a fashion school in London. She’s also a huge fan of all things “Swingin’ Sixties”, and has an ability to see spirits – like her deceased mother – in reflective objects. So when Eloise gets to London, is it any wonder she starts seeing the spirit of Sandie, another young, talented girl? But there’s a dark shadow over Sandie, and Eloise is getting way too connected…
Genre I’d put it in: Trippy Time Travel Terror
Remake, Sequel, Based-On, or Original: Original, though you may notice hints of Audrey Rose, Midnight in Paris, The Sixth Sense, and other films that deal with living alternate lives.
Gotta say: Gotta love Edgar Wright. His films take tropes I thought I knew backwards and forwards, and manages to give ’em a little spin I never thought I needed. Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, and of course his crazypants TV series Spaced; they all have a touch of newness about them, even in genres we’ve seen dozens of times before. The same can be said of Soho, a ghostly, time-travely, murdery mystery set both in modern times and in the “Swingin’ Sixties”. Wright takes a story of how a newcomer to London feels out-of-water, and combines it with another tale of a newcomer to London, adds in the ability to see spirits from the past…and hits frappé. And viewers get a frothy, fun look at being a twenty-something in London, while getting chills from the sinister actions Eloise becomes an unwitting party to. So basically, it’s everything you’d want in a delicious diversion, minus the brain freeze.
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