CELIA
“Put the bunny back in the box.” Oh Celia.
RELEASED OUT NOW! 1989 | 15 | Blu-ray
Director Ann Turner
Cast Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey
BLU-RAY DEBUT Despite being released as Celia: Child Of Terror on US VHS, this Australian obscurity is more a coming-of-age tale than a horror film. Light years from Razorback et al, it belongs with Pan’s Labyrinth and A Monster Calls in that subgenre of films which slip between reality and a child’s fantasies. And the fantasy side – with nine-year-old Celia interacting with her dead grandmother and menaced by the Hobyahs, fairytale monsters from a favourite book – does not intrude that often. Though ultimately, it does so in a big way…