That he’s a soldier without an obvious cause or country only adds to the spooky, anxious vibe.Ī malevolent fairy tale about men and women, violence and power (and things that go eek in the night), “Amulet” frays your nerves beautifully for its first creepy hour. The writer-director Romola Garai, though, keeps his background and the larger picture blurred, allowing your imagination to roam free as the trees rustle and the camera glides. My, what big eyes and brain you have, viewers may think, as they wonder where he is and what he’s doing there. The storybook setting makes a curious fit with his rifle, uniform and the roadblock he guards (sometimes while reading Hannah Arendt’s “On Violence”). Tomaz (Alec Secareanu) enters, wreathed in mystery and isolated in deep woods. The object here is worn and pale as bone, with breasts and a shell-like disc fanning above its head like a mantilla. Students of the cinematic supernatural will know better, given the fantastic objects scattered throughout the horror genre, with its demonic dolls, cursed videotapes and enchanted fetishes. When Tomaz digs a small figurine out of the rich, dark earth in “Amulet,” he has no sense of the trouble it will bring.
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