Joel Edgerton’s accomplished debut feature “The Gift” is a horror movie with no blood and no ghosts; its scares come from what we, or someone we thought we knew, might be capable of. And it works, tidily and tensely and with just enough of that sudden shrieky what-was-that kind of jolt that keeps you sitting up straight, giggling nervously, wanting it to end but hoping it’ll last a little longer.
The multitalented Edgerton (you’ve mostly seen him as an actor, in movies like “The Great Gatsby,” “Exodus: Gods and Kings” and “Animal Kingdom”) wrote and directed the film, and plays a key role.