This week in movies you missed: In which I go looking for fun schlock on Netflix Instant — because it’s too hot to think — and find something worse: arty schlock.
What You Missed
Elfie Hopkins (Jaime Winstone, daughter of Ray) is not a cannibal hunter. Her title appears to have been added to the movie for U.S. video release, perhaps to hook “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans.
Elfie is a disaffected young slacker who lives with her dad and hated stepmother in a twee house in the Welsh countryside. She spends her time moping about her mom’s death, pretending to be a detective, and fending off the advances of her cute friend, Dylan (Aneurin Barnard), whom she sneeringly calls a “nerd” for checking police records and other stuff that detectives might actually do.
Then a family of cannibals moves in next door.
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