UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road), Topher Grace (BlacKkKlansman), Laura-Leigh Claire (We’re The Millers), Zosia Mamet (Wiener-Dog), Jimmi Simpson (White House Down), Patrick Fischler (The Black Dahlia), Luke Baines (The Girl In The Photographs), Callie Hernandez (The Endless), Riki Lindhome (Million Dollar Baby), Don McManus (Vice), Summer Bishil (Towelhead), Grace Van Patten (The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)), Sydney Sweeney (The Martial Arts Kid), India Menuez (Something in the Air), Jeremy Bobb (Marshall), David Yow (Bullet on a Wire)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Robert Mitchell (It Follows), director, writer; Chris Bender (A History of Violence), Michael De Luca (The Social Network), Adele Romanski (Moonlight) and Jake Weiner (Criminal), producers; Disasterpeace (It Follows), composer; Mike Gioulakis (Split), cinematographer; Julio Perez (The Myth of the American Sleepover), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Sam (Garfield), a 33-year-old slacker, becomes intrigued by his new neighbour Sarah (Keough), but when she mysteriously vanishes he embarks on a surreal quest throughout Los Angeles to discover the secret behind her disappearance, along the way uncovering an entire network of conspiracies…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell follow-up his subversive horror film It Follows with a surreal and David Lynch-esque dive into the world of LA conspiracies.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 15TH MARCH 2019

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