Review of the Film: “The Lie”
Blumhouse Productions have produced so many masterpieces in the past, such as Academy Award-nominated films Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, apart from several horror genre blockbusters like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, The Purge, Oculus, The Gift, Split, and Halloween. This time they have come up with “The Lie,” which is a part of their “Welcome to the Blumhouse” initiative (a partnership between Blumhouse and Amazon Studios to give a platform to all the emerging diverse filmmakers and artists to showcase their virtuosity). “The Lie,” as the title suggests, is about deception and how far can you go to hide the truth when somebody from your own family is being held at the knife-edge. Peter Sarsgaard and Mireille Enos star in this cat and mouse thriller as a couple who went to the extremes to cover the tracks of their 15-year-old daughter who accidentally killed a man. Veena Sud, famed for being the creator of American crime drama series The Killing, directed the English l...