PREVIEW: I Came By (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

George MacKay (1917), Hugh Bonneville (Paddington), Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men), Percelle Ascott (X+Y), Varada Sethu (Jurassic World: Dominion), Antonio Aakeel (Eaten by Lions)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Babak Anvari (Under the Shadow), director, writer; Namsi Khan (film debut), writer; Lucan Toh (Wounds), producer; Isobel Waller-Bridge (The Phantom of the Open), composer; Kit Fraser (Eternal Beauty), cinematographer; Matyas Fekete (The Duke of Burgundy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Toby (MacKay) is a young graffiti artist who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, but when he breaks into the home of retired and renowned judge Sir Hector Blake (Bonneville), he discovers a horrifying secret in Blake’s basement that puts him and his closest ones in terrible danger…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Hugh Bonneville shows a much darker side in this nail-biting Hitchcockian thriller from writer-director Babak Anvari, best known for the breakthrough horror Under the Shadow.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 31ST AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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