The rare top rating of 5 stars comes in the FILMSTARTS review and the award as one of the best films of 2022. And yet “The Innocents” is still too unknown. On Amazon Prime Video, that should change.
“The Innocents” is for us one of the most disturbing and best superhero films ever made – and above all, very different from the comic fare of Marvel, DC and Co. You can see for yourself in the streaming subscription. The Innocents” is available on Amazon Prime Video.
“THE INNOCENTS”: A 5-STAR MASTERPIECE
It centers on nine-year-old Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), who moves with her parents to a high-rise housing development. She takes out her frustration about the dreary new surroundings on her defenseless older sister Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad). She can’t speak and is constantly bullied by Ida. But then Anna meets Aisha (Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim), who seems to have telepathic powers, while Ida meets the telekinetically inclined Ben (Sam Ashraf), someone who is on the same wavelength as her when it comes to sadistic pranks. With superpowers at her back, the situation quickly escalates.
“Even such emphatically nihilistic comic adaptations as ‘The Punisher’ or ‘The Boys’ suddenly seem like the purest children’s birthday party compared to the grounded mercilessness of some scenes in ‘The Innocents,'” writes our editor-in-chief Christopher Petersen in the FILMSTARTS review of “The Innocents.” He even gives it the highest rating of 5 stars!
For him, “The Innocents” is even the best film of the year 2022. In our big vote together with Moviepilot, it was enough for tenth place. But even so, the devastating horror drama from director and screenwriter Eskil Vogt is still far too unknown.
If you now want to risk a look at Amazon Prime Video, but be warned. Even at the German premiere at the Fantasy Filmfest, where the audience is used to a harder pace, some viewers threw in the towel. “The Innocents” is ultimately “mercilessly evil”, as it says in the conclusion of the 5-star review already quoted, but also “mercilessly good” and thus “a masterpiece that is as radical as it is devastating. “
