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WHO’S IN IT?

Dan Stevens (The Guest), Lucy Boynton (Sing Street), Mark Lewis Jones (The Other Boleyn Girl), Bill Milner (Son of Rambow), Kristine Froseth (Sierra Burgess Is A Loser), Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon), Elen Rhys (Panic Button), Annes Elwy (The Passing), Ross O’Hennessy (Heroes and Villains), Richard Elfyn (Killer Elite), Juke Hardy (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Sebastian McCheyne (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Gareth Evans (The Raid), director, writer, producer, editor; Ed Talfan (The Passing) and Aram Tertzakian (The Raid 2), producers; Aria Prayogi (Merantau) and Fajar Yuskemal (Headshot), composers; Matt Flannery (Footsteps), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1905, nobleman Thomas Richardson (Stevens) travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she is kidnapped by a religious cult that is demanding a ransom for her safe return. However, as Thomas digs deeper into the secrets and lies that the cult was founded upon, he soon becomes an unstoppable force of nature that the cult will soon regret screwing around with…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

After making two of the most visceral, brutal and just plain awesome action movies of the past decade, Gareth Evans follows up the Raid films with an action-horror that promises even more bloodshed than ever before.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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