Natalie Erika James directed Relic, an Australian psychological horror film, based on screenplay by James and Christian White.
The film stars Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, and Bella Heathcote.
Relic had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Fest, and was released in July of that year by IFC Midnight.
When Edna, the demented, elderly widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her.
They discover the house locked from the inside, and a strange black mold-like substance on an upstairs wall. Much of the furniture has been adorned with Post-it notes of reminders for Edna.
That night, Sam is visited by their young neighbor Jamie, who says that he had not been to visit Edna for a while after his father had told him not to go back to the house.
Sam and Kay grow increasingly disturbed by loud creaking from inside the walls and the increasing appearance of black mold throughout the house.
Kay experiences nightmares of a withered rotting corpse in an old shack in the woodlands.
