'Thelma' puts a spellbinding supernatural twist on the coming-of-age drama

Everyone has to grow up sometime. That doesn’t make it any less terrifying when you’re the one going through it.

Perhaps that’s why coming-of-age narratives seem so ripe for horrific reinterpretation. This year alone, we’ve seen a vet student fight cannibalistic urges in Raw, a young mermaid betrayed by her first love in The Lure, and an entire clique of kids experience their darkest fears made manifest in It.

Now comes Thelma, which filters a young woman’s sexual awakening through a paranormal lens. Thelma (Eili Harboe) has just arrived at college, and has begun the process of discovering herself – what she believes, what she wants, what she’s capable of. Read more…

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