PREVIEW: Shepherd (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tom Hughes (Cemetery Junction), Kate Dickie (The Green Knight), Gaia Weiss (Judy), Greta Scacchi (Operation Finale), Jamie Marie Leary (Super November)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Russell Owen (Welcome to the Majority), director, writer; Aslam Parvez (Patients of a Saint) and Karim Prince Tshibangu (Aake), producers; Callum Donaldson (Forever Tomorrow), composer; Richard Stoddard (Sometimes Always Never), cinematographer; Jim Page (Off-Piste) and Christopher Thornton (How to Become a Criminal Mastermind), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After his wife mysteriously dies, Eric Black (Hughes) takes a job as a shepherd on a solitary island. However, as it becomes clear that there is a dark secret lurking on the island, Eric must battle his sanity and grief to save what little he has left of his life…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This dark psychological thriller plays on mood and atmosphere to deliver some unexpected chills and occasionally surreal shifts of reality in a similar fashion as Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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