Redux Redux

The opening frame is blatant horror. There’s Irene (Michaela McManus) standing over the burning body of man tied to a chair. Its horrific and brought to mind the burning man in a wheelchair image in Manhunter.

Next there’s Irene in a diner stalking the chef Neville (Jeremy Holm) whom she later kills. This happens on a couple of occasions soon becoming clear that Irene can jump dimensions in an unlikely looking time-machine. She is in a desperate search for one where her daughter Anne is still alive.

It’s a gruelling process that is slowly sapping her mental strength and with all the killing its turning into just eternal revenge. Her prime objective being buried in frustration and violence.

Writers and directors Kevin and Matthew McManus have been around a while writing, producing, and directing for tv and film. So it's no surprise that this is a very good-looking and sounding, film with excellent use of locations.

The films moves at decent pace with solid characters introduced, then dropped like Dale (Jim Cummings) having served their purpose. An exception is Mia (Stella Marcus) who provides Irene with some purpose, knowing what she does.

There was a risk of repetition and to start it necessarily is. But once the scenario is set, the McManus’s widen the film by showing how Irene copes with the travel and her routines. More intriguingly she is not the only one with a time machine. There exists a whole sub-society of people who fix and deal with these things.

For the most part, Redux Redux is a sci-fi action film, the horror coming along later in the film as Neville’s true evil and violent nature come to the fore.

Redux Redux had its English premiere at London FrightFest in August 2025.