PREVIEW: The War Below (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sam Hazeldine (The Hitman’s Bodyguard), Tom Goodman-Hill (The Imitation Game), Kris Hitchen (Sorry We Missed You), Elliot James Langridge (Northern Soul), Sam Clemmett (Cherry), Joseph Steyne (Panic), Sonny Ashbourne Serkis (Child 44), Philip Correia (The Hunters), Samuel James (The Man on Her Mind), Alexa Morden (Beautiful Devils), Douglas Reith (The Queen), Andrew Scarborough (film debut), Jake Wheeldon (Dirty God)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

J.P. Watts (film debut), director, writer; Thomas Woods (film debut), writer; Luis Guerrero (You’re Not Alone), William Knochel (Beneath Us) and Chris Lemos (Beyond the Lights), producers; Anné Kulonen (film debut), composer; Nick Cooke (Limbo), cinematographer; editor TBA

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

During the First World War, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man’s land and plant bombs below the German line, in an attempt to break the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Following in the wake of 1917, this WW1-set thriller brings the war beneath the surface in a tense plot that gives an eerie sense of claustrophobia.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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