HOLD THE DARK (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jeffrey Wright (Syriana), Alexander Skarsgård (Mute), Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road), James Bloor (Go North), James Badge Dale (Shame), Macon Blair (Blue Ruin), Julian Black Antelope (Western Confidential)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), director; Macon Blair (The Monkey’s Paw), writer; Russell Ackerman (Cargo), Eva Maria Daniels (What Maisie Knew), Neil Kopp (Night Moves), Anish Savjani (Blue Ruin) and John Schoenfelder (Tau), producers; Brooke Blair (Murder Party) and Will Blair (Diverge), composers; Magnus Nordenhof Jønck (A Hijacking), cinematographer; Julia Bloch (The Cold Lands), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After three children are found dead, the attacks are suspected to have been carried out by a pack of wild wolves. Writer and wolf expert Russell Core (Wright) is approached by parents Vernon (Skarsgård) and Medora (Keough), who hire him to help find their missing six-year-old son in the Alaskan wilderness…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Director Jeremy Saulnier, the man behind the terrifying Green Room from a couple of years ago, is back with a movie that dares to go to even darker places than even that film or his prior film Blue Ruin ever dared to go.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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