PREVIEW: The Infernal Machine (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Guy Pearce (Memento), Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness), Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike), Jeremy Davies (The Black Phone), Iris Cayatte (Fatima)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Andrew Hunt (Miles Between Us), director, writer; Julian Hicks (The Spirit of Jazz), Lionel Hicks (In Extremis) and Spencer McLaren (Swimming for Gold), producers; Nathaniel Levisay (Dawning), composer; Sara Deane (Anna and the Apocalypse), cinematographer; Jeremy Wanek (The Current), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Bruce Cogburn (Pearce), the reclusive author of a controversial book called The Infernal Machine, begins receiving endless letters from an obsessed fan, which forces him to come out of hiding and face up to the consequences that his bestseller has wrought…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Guy Pearce slips back into psychological thriller territory for this chilling and calculating tale, in which he plays a J.D. Salinger-like recluse being tormented by a deranged admirer.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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