Summary
A mother looks to escape her past and build a new life with son Chris in a rural town, but an interaction with a mysterious neighbour sends her into a nightmare.
A mother looks to escape her past and build a new life with son Chris in a rural town, but an interaction with a mysterious neighbour sends her into a nightmare.
A mum's angst over her child being mysteriously replaced is the throbbing heart of director Lee Cronin's haunting Irish thriller. After a memorably disorientating opening, his stylish feature debut follows now-single Sarah (a terrific Seana Kerslake) as she decamps with son Chris to a farmhouse in the backwoods of Ireland. But a brooding air of trepidation and menace seeps into Sarah's new start after the discovery of a gigantic sinkhole in a nearby forest. Any similarity to the mouth of hell is of course purely coincidental. So, when Chris goes on a nocturnal walkabout and returns not quite seeming himself, allied to Sarah's encounter with a batty local woman (Kati Outinen) and her husband (James Cosmo), a terrifying suspicion begins to churn away. But is she going mad or has Chris really gone bad, just because he scoffs the odd spider? This slow-burning chiller teases out both possibilities effectively, though the subterranean climax is tellingly not so out of the ordinary.
role | name |
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Sarah O'Neill | Seana Kerslake |
Chris O'Neill | James Quinn Markey |
Des Brady | James Cosmo |
Noreen Brady | Kati Outinen |
Louise Caul | Simone Kirby |
Rob Caul | Steve Wall |
role | name |
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Director | Lee Cronin |