“Leave” (** out of four) was a muddled horror melodrama about a young woman (Alicia von Rittberg) who was abandoned as a child and tries to find her origins and her family but finds that this may lead to a far more darker origination than she could have imagined and this in turn leads to an alteration and perception of her current reality. Well-directed by Alex Herron and atmospherically lensed by Sjur Aarthun but this cannot camouflage story and script’s emptiness at its core and its obvious derivations from other films (especially “The Shining.”). Von Riitberg is rock-solid in the lead but you’d best “leave” this after about a half-hour.

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