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A grieving mother turns revenge into a ritual, hopping worlds to murder the same man forever — a fluorescent-lit fever dream where love calcifies into an endless, echoing gunshot.
Redux Redux
Redux Redux

"Revenge is a vicious cycle."

28 December 2025 United States of America 109 min 6.7 (225)

Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus

Cast: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm, Jim Cummings, Taylor Misiak

Crime Thriller Science Fiction Horror Grief as an Endless Loop The Diminishing Returns of Vengeance Inheritance and the Transmission of Violence Motherhood After Loss The Mundane Multiverse

Redux Redux — Characters & Cast

Character Analysis

Irene Kelly

Michaela McManus

Archetype: Antihero / avenging mother Key Trait: Relentless

Motivation

To keep killing the man who murdered her daughter Anna until the act finally feels like enough — and, beneath that, to remain a mother by any means available.

Character Arc

Begins as a mourner with a mission and gradually becomes a professional of violence, her satisfaction shrinking as her competence grows. Encountering Mia cracks the routine open and forces a choice between continuing the cycle and becoming responsible for someone alive.

Mia

Stella Marcus

Archetype: Protégée / surrogate daughter Key Trait: Sharp-witted

Motivation

Survival first, then the same intoxicating promise that hooked Irene: that hurting the man who hurt you will make it stop.

Character Arc

Introduced as a victim discovered in Neville's home, she proves fierce and resourceful, and quickly becomes eager to adopt Irene's methods. Her appetite for vengeance holds a mirror up to Irene and ultimately becomes the film's moral fulcrum.

Neville

Jeremy Holm

Archetype: The recurring antagonist Key Trait: Ordinary

Motivation

Predation, presented without grandeur — the banality of the man is part of the point.

Character Arc

A restaurant cook and murderer who exists in endless variation; as a character he does not develop so much as regenerate, each version arriving fresh to a death he has already died elsewhere.

Jonathan

Jim Cummings

Archetype: Foil Key Trait: Unsettling

Motivation

Not fully specified in available sources beyond his entanglement with Irene's mission.

Character Arc

A figure from the fringes of Irene's multiversal circuit whose presence complicates her self-image as a lone agent of justice.

Cast

Michaela McManus as Irene Kelly
Stella Marcus as Mia
Jeremy Holm as Neville
Jim Cummings as Jonathan
Taylor Misiak as Billie
Dendrie Taylor as Darla
Derick Alexander as Cashier
Raphael Chestang as Officer Connor
Debra Christofferson as Deb
Minita Gandhi as Jennifer
London Garcia as Hotel Clerk
Clinton Lowe as Officer Dyson
Michael Manuel as Travis
Remy Ortiz as Manager Walton
Dan Perrault as Officer Hurd

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