Not a fanI'm so gutted about this cuz it's a 1984 retelling but really this only reminded me how Untouchable George Orwell's original book actually truly is... the 2014 ification of 1984 is diabolical
Julia (1975)
Others: Negative In a house in London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil. Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun . . . Less
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