My Brother Jeremy
2025 · 7m
Directed by Luke De Brún
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
A child tells us about his strange older brother Jeremy, who only comes out at night to play hide and seek — and who always finds you.
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The scouts
The hide-and-seek-as-predation premise is deliciously twisted, but De Brún plays it straight enough that it almost suffocates the subversion — you want him to *lean* into the wrongness, not just hint at it like every other elevated-horror safe bet.
A controlled descent into childhood dread with clear debts to the uncanny-sibling tradition; De Brún's restraint and the framing choices suggest a filmmaker aware of his lineage, though the execution feels more competent than revelatory.
The decision to let the child's matter-of-fact narration carry the entire weight of dread — never cutting to Jeremy, never confirming the threat — transforms what could be jump-scare fodder into something genuinely unsettling, and that single tonal commitment is what makes this work.
Festivals
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi, Official Selection