Paradise Hills

The trippy visuals, provocative ideas, and gifted cast make this twisted fairy tale worth watching.

There's no tension as to where things are going to end up, the final images leaving me cold.

Give it up for "Paradise Hills" for swinging for the fences when it comes to bat-bleep crazy.

A disappointingly half-baked riff on The Stepford Wives whose brand of feminism feels more 1970s than 2010s.

For a long time I had no idea what the hell was going on in this movie... I tapped out.

This is a film that, if I was 15-years-old and having a sleepover with my friends, I would 100 percent want to put on.

The performances (and the cinematic world) are so inventive that while the plot doesn’t take the same risks, one can’t help but wonder how Waddington might reinvigorate other science fiction narratives with her fairy tale stylings.

Ultimately, it's these themes that Paradise Hills brings to the forefront that makes it worth watching.

Waddington explores questions of social expectations, class and individual freedom, as she takes these characters on a darker, scarier journey than the pretty surroundings suggest, a tale with some surprising twists and a satisfying ending,

Waddington has delivered a confident, clever and provocative debut feature.