PREVENGE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Gemma Whelan (The Wolfman), Kate Dickie (The Witch), Jo Hartley (David Brent: Life on the Road), Kayvan Novak (Cuban Fury), Tom Davis (Outside Bet), Mike Wozniak (film debut), Dan Renton Skinner (High-Rise), Tom Meeten (Weekender), Eileen Davies (The Theory of Everything)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Alice Lowe (film debut), director, writer; Jennifer Handorf (Isle of Dogs), Will Kane (film debut) and Vaughan Sivell (Third Star), producers; Pablo Clements (Cherry Tree Lane) and James Griffith (Montana), composers; Ryan Eddleston (Black Mountain Poets), cinematographer; Matteo Bini (Girlfriend in a Coma), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Ruth (Lowe), a heavily pregnant woman, is convinced by her unborn foetus to go on a killing spree after the death of her boyfriend…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Alice Lowe makes her directorial debut with this bonkers-sounding horror-thriller that takes the concept of a lonely pregnant woman to unexpected and gruesome new heights.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2017

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