The deadly perils of music academies are a somewhat recurring horror-movie trope. Witness Black Swan, Suspiria and its overlong 2018 remake, the recent gore-fest The Perfection (better known as "that Netflix vomit movie") and even the jazzy Whiplash, which is more of a thriller than a horror flick but still features lots of psychological terror and bodily harm.
In Nocturne, first-time writer-director Zu Quirke adds a few of her own twists to the evil music school genre, including a bitter sibling rivalry and a mysterious book of sheet music that may have been written by Satan himself.
Yet it’s not quite enough to prevent this B-grade rendition from feeling rather familiar and unsuspenseful, even if stars Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and.
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