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Completed - ENGLISH - Thriller, Drama - 93 minutes

Previous markets

  • Sundance 2021 (Premiere)
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Year of production : 2020

Director(s) : James ASHCROFT
Writer(s) : Eli KENT, James ASHCROFT
Cast : Daniel GILLIES, Erik THOMSON, Miriama MCDOWALL, Matthias LUAFUTU

Producer(s) : Mike MINOGUE, Catherine FITZGERALD, Desray ARMSTRONG

Synopsis

Winding down a desolate road through an endless valley, Alan and Jill stop their car to take their teenage boys on a hike through the New Zealand wilderness. As they rest for a picnic at a clearing overlooking the water, two ominous-looking drifters appear out of nowhere, silently surrounding the peaceful clan and radiating a threat of imminent danger. With a swift act of violence, these men take the family by force, a seemingly random decision that sets them all on a maddening collision course with the ghosts of their pasts—from which there is no escape.

With its menacing performances and calibrated stakes, director James Ashcroft’s ruthless crime thriller careens into an unhinged road trip that leaves the viewer breathless through every piercing curve. Ashcroft pulls absolutely no punches in his feature debut, an astonishingly lean and relentlessly paced descent into the heart of brutality, building tension from a single speck to an avalanche with uncommon precision.

Contains extreme violence and gore.

Production

Country(ies) : NEW ZEALAND

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Festivals and Awards

Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021 Midnight


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