Stephen Shields’s Typical Vibe
2 films — gripping, dark, intense, easy, styled

Highest-ranked title
Stephen Shields has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.
Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett · With Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Dir. Lee Cronin · With Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, James Cosmo