Reunion

I promise to stay out of your hair.

– Ivy (Julia Ormond) to her daughter Ellie (Emma Draper)

[Emma Draper and Julia Ormond] convey a lifetime’s worth of history with just a few caustic looks ... Reunion is the kind of intimate familial horror that resonates in any era. It pairs well with contemporaries like Ari Aster’s Hereditary, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, and Natalie Erika James’ Relic. It’s incisive, observant, and makes its characters earn their catharsis.

– Reviewer Eddie Strait on website Cinapse, 11 October 2020

I found the script really engaging and it kept me on my toes. But it was a strange mix, an unusual mix, and I think Jake as a director has shown he's quite uncompromising — in a good way — about the integrity of what he wanted it to be.

– English actor Julia Ormond on the work of Reunion's writer/director Jake Mahaffy, Stuff, 22 February 2019

This is a mature, skilfully made, beautifully shot, edited and designed film that revels in being exactly the old-fashioned horror the poster and the trailer are promising.

– Writer Grame Tuckett, in a four star review on Stuff, 4 November 2020