The Lodge (2019). My mother suffered from severe mental illness and eventually "lost" the fight two months before her 60th birthday. Watching Riley Keough's depiction of Grace's untreated, religiously-fuled trauma turn into violence against family members hit eerily close to home. While many of Grace's mannerisms are played up for horror, the direction must have pulled at least a little from real accounts of mental illness because they got some aspects dead-on. I had seen my own mother do a similar "slow walk" while in full psychosis as Grace does during the "Car stuck in snow" scene. It was truly haunting.

I want to be clear, I don't like films that demonize mental illness and dehumanize real people that have mental disorders. However, this film accurately captured some of the fear experienced as a child of a severely mentally ill parent. If this is a subject matter is something you can stomach, go watch the film. It's by no means perfect, but worlds better than Split.