WILDLING (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Liv Tyler (Armageddon), Brad Dourif (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest), Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy), Mike Faist (The Unspeakable Act), Troy Ruptash (Dig Two Graves), Frank Deal (Non-Stop), Charlotte Ubben (10,000 Saints), Collin Kelly-Sordelet (Radium Girls), Trevor E. Dickerson (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Fritz Böhm (film debut), director, writer; Florian Eder (film debut), writer; Celine Rattray (The Kids Are All Right), Trudie Styler (Filth), Liv Tyler (film debut) and Charlotte Ubben (Freak Show), producers; Paul Haslinger (Shoot ‘Em Up), composer; Toby Oliver (Get Out), cinematographer; Matthew Rundell (White Frog) and Robb Sullivan (The Fault in Our Stars), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Since birth, Anna (Powley) has been raised alone in an isolated cabin by a man she knows only as Daddy (Dourif). When she is found by police officer Ellen (Tyler) and is suddenly thrust into society, she increasingly finds herself drawn back to the woods where she came from, as both she and Ellen discover the secret behind her traumatic childhood…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Experiencing adolescence has never been scarier in this mythological thriller that cleverly blends teen curiosity with something much deadlier.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 20TH APRIL 2018

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