"Greta"

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Friendship is one of the most important social needs we require both as humans, even in the animal kingdom. They give us companionship, a support group and keep us from experiencing depression and anxiety, at least the right friends do. Yet when you strike up a friendship it can be a risk and if it should be the wrong friend, it can have dangerous consequences.

Frances McCullen (Chloe Grace Moretz) has been through a lot lately. Not long ago she lost her mom to cancer and her relationship with her father Chris McCullen (Colm Feore) has become strained especially since her move to New York. Even with her roommate and friend Erica Penn (Maika Monroe) and a good waitressing job at an upscale restaurant Frances is still finding her way.
One day on the subway, she finds a purse left there. Upon looking at the contents and finding the identification, she returns it to the owner Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert), a French immigrant and piano teacher who invites Frances in for coffee to thank her.
The two keep in touch and begin to strike up a friendship despite Erica's suspicions of Greta and concern that Frances may be looking for a maternal relationship to replace the one she lost and not seeing things for what they are. It all seems to be going well until she discovers a closet full of handbags with items and identification like the one she found and realizes that Greta did not leave her purse on accident.
Wanting to sever the friendship afterwards, Frances tries to continue on with her life, but Greta doesn't take the rejection well and starts to show up randomly in Frances's life much to her horror. As Frances begins to dig into Greta's past she learns that Greta is not at all as she seems and that knocking on her door opened her up a gateway to her worst nightmare.

Suspenseful and shocking. This well-timed thriller puts you right in the front seat to the horrors of obsession as you watch it play out keeping you gripped wondering which way the ending will go. Isabelle Huppert's performance as the subtle, yet psychotic and ready to snap without warning Greta is terrifyingly good and makes you wonder if the nice old woman next door may be just a hair trigger away from locking you up in a basement because it Tuesday and she's lonely. For a haunting and hair-raising film such as this, it deserves no less than five G.M.Stars.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Green Mountain Stars

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