By the time we got to the exciting bit, the sense of menace was rapidly dissipating and dread was beginning to lapse into self-consciousness.

‘Went Up the Hill' doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it.

Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up the Hill is characterized by a starkly precise aesthetic and withholding approach to the ghost story.

It may be that the obligations that Van Grinsven and Anast feel to telling stories of trauma undermine their skills as storytellers. Went Up the Hill is too damn timid for a gothic ghost story. It’s sexless and it doesn’t scare us at all.