PREVIEW: Amulet (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Carla Juri (Blade Runner 2049), Alec Secăreanu (God’s Own Country), Angeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Anah Ruddin (Profile of Fear)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Romola Garai (film debut), director, writer; Maggie Monteith (Pin Cushion) and Matthew James Wilkinson (Days of the Bagnold Summer), producers; Sarah Angliss (film debut), composer; Laura Bellingham (The Power), cinematographer; Alastair Reid (Free Jimmy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Tomaz (Secăreanu), a former soldier now living homeless in London, is offered to stay at a decaying house which is home to mysterious Magda (Juri) and her dying mother (Ruddin). However, as he begins to fall for the young woman, he discovers the dark secret that she has been charged with keeping…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Actress Romola Garai makes her filmmaking debut with this chilling supernatural horror, where nothing is as it seems – not even the casting of Imelda Staunton as a nun!

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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