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?

FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2018 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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