Here After

"Here After" is a 2010 horror-thriller film that tells the unsettling story of a mother-daughter relationship strained by the mother's paranoia. The film takes center stage in the complex relationship between Jeanne and her teenage daughter, Pier, after Pier has a near-death experience. The story begins with Jeanne and Pier struggling to connect with each other as Pier becomes increasingly reclusive. Pierre Le Tessier, their well-intentioned uncle, tries to intervene and bridge the gap between Jeanne and Pier. He reminds Jeanne that Pier's behavior might be normal after the traumatic experience she had. However, Jeanne remains unconvinced, speculating that Pier has 'brought something back' from the 'other side.' As things escalate and Pier becomes increasingly paranoid, Jeanne starts suspecting that Pier indeed brought something malevolent back. People begin to act strangely around Pier, making small animal noises, behaving erratically, and often staring into space without any emotion. This unsettling atmosphere creates tension, as Jeanne starts to investigate further into the supernatural activity occurring around Pier. One day, after visiting her friend Colette, Jeanne becomes convinced that the malevolent presence that seems to have followed Pier has started acting violently. That evening, after watching some news coverage of cannibalism, Jeanne finds Pier with an unsettling and unexplainable expression, as if the expression was some sort of 'connection.' This intensifies Jeanne's paranoia and concern. Determined to help Pier, Jeanne invites Pierre's expertise to monitor Pier and determine if her behavior was a coincidence or genuinely supernatural. Gradually, the lines of Jeanne's perceptions start to blur. She starts suspecting everyone and everything around her, her family, friends, including the man that captured her life for that mysterious woman on television. Throughout the movie, flashes of haunting images intermingled with cruel, and often horrific, episodes of the duo's disconcerting interaction deepen the film's sense of fear and foreboding. Their confusing relationships strain the norms that Jeanne and Pier once shared. Eventually, as you watch the connection between Jeanne and Pier, a rather disturbing secret unravels. The tension is relieved somewhat with revelations about Pier's near-death experiences. Her trauma has, in all probability, unleashed this state of chaos or malevolence within her. Or not? One piece of evidence keeps on spiraling at a frantic pace until that ominous fate that awaits Pier becomes a reality.