Warning: contains spoilers for Inside No. 9 ‘The Harrowing’
“It was ‘Wtf!? Oh my God! I’m not going to sleep! Why did you do that to me?!’” The moment the credits rolled on Inside No. 9’s series one finale ‘The Harrowing’, director David Kerr was deluged with messages. “People were very responsive,” he laughs. “We’d gone for something bold that was properly horrible and would haunt them. There’s not much out there that scares a horror fan because they’ve seen it all so many times. That’s the challenge. You want to hit people with a visceral, palpable gut punch that they didn’t see coming.”
Job done. The final shot of 2014’s ‘The Harrowing’ is truly deserving of the episode’s title. A schoolgirl, stripped, bound to a chair, gagged and anesthetised, whimpers in terror as the filthy curtains surrounding a four-poster bed begin to part.
“It was ‘Wtf!? Oh my God! I’m not going to sleep! Why did you do that to me?!’” The moment the credits rolled on Inside No. 9’s series one finale ‘The Harrowing’, director David Kerr was deluged with messages. “People were very responsive,” he laughs. “We’d gone for something bold that was properly horrible and would haunt them. There’s not much out there that scares a horror fan because they’ve seen it all so many times. That’s the challenge. You want to hit people with a visceral, palpable gut punch that they didn’t see coming.”
Job done. The final shot of 2014’s ‘The Harrowing’ is truly deserving of the episode’s title. A schoolgirl, stripped, bound to a chair, gagged and anesthetised, whimpers in terror as the filthy curtains surrounding a four-poster bed begin to part.
- 10/18/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Film premiered at this year’s Edinburgh film festival.
UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has picked up Shelagh McLeod’s space drama Astronaut, which stars Richard Dreyfuss as a widower who enters a competition to win a trip to space.
The film premiered at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Parkland is lining up a theatrical release in early 2020 across the UK and Ireland.
Producers on the project are Jessica Adams and Sean Buckley. It marks the feature directing debut of UK-based Canadian actress McLeod, who also wrote the screenplay.
Parkland Entertainment was launched last year by former Arrow Films...
UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has picked up Shelagh McLeod’s space drama Astronaut, which stars Richard Dreyfuss as a widower who enters a competition to win a trip to space.
The film premiered at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Parkland is lining up a theatrical release in early 2020 across the UK and Ireland.
Producers on the project are Jessica Adams and Sean Buckley. It marks the feature directing debut of UK-based Canadian actress McLeod, who also wrote the screenplay.
Parkland Entertainment was launched last year by former Arrow Films...
- 8/13/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Directed by Academy Award-winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, Cold Hell is coming to the streaming service Shudder in the Us on March 15th, and we have the official details and trailer in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes Australia and New Zealand screening details for the horror film Living Space, as well as the announcement for the start of production on the new movie Making Monsters.
Cold Hell Coming to Shudder: "This Thursday, March 15th, Cold Hell debuts exclusively on Shudder.
Özge (Violetta Schurawlow, Head Full Of Honey) is a young Turkish-born taxi driver, who attends evening classes and is an ambitious Thai-boxer. She trains hard and rarely speaks.
One day, Özge witnesses a brutal murder. The suspect is an unhinged serial killer, inspired by extremist Islam. Convinced that the woman has seen him, the two enter a tense life-and-death struggle that will leave neither unscathed.
In his job at the Vienna Police Department,...
Cold Hell Coming to Shudder: "This Thursday, March 15th, Cold Hell debuts exclusively on Shudder.
Özge (Violetta Schurawlow, Head Full Of Honey) is a young Turkish-born taxi driver, who attends evening classes and is an ambitious Thai-boxer. She trains hard and rarely speaks.
One day, Özge witnesses a brutal murder. The suspect is an unhinged serial killer, inspired by extremist Islam. Convinced that the woman has seen him, the two enter a tense life-and-death struggle that will leave neither unscathed.
In his job at the Vienna Police Department,...
- 3/13/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Richard Dreyfuss and Colm Feore have just wrapped production on their latest movie, Astronaut, a Canadian indie that shot north of Toronto in December, producers confirmed.
Dreyfuss played a lonely widower who battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.
The ensemble cast included House of Cards star Feore, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Richie Lawrence, Graham Greene, and a cameo appearance by Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?).
Directed and written by McLeod, Astronaut is produced by Jessica Adams and Sean Buckley and has financing from Telefilm Canada.
Dreyfuss is...
Dreyfuss played a lonely widower who battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.
The ensemble cast included House of Cards star Feore, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Richie Lawrence, Graham Greene, and a cameo appearance by Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?).
Directed and written by McLeod, Astronaut is produced by Jessica Adams and Sean Buckley and has financing from Telefilm Canada.
Dreyfuss is...
- 1/30/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This inventively filmed but overlong drama plays like a bag of jagged shards broken off from other miserabilist rural-set British films
Set in the squelchy, crushed-flat fields and pongy, primeval marshes of Norfolk’s Broadlands, this maddeningly oblique, somewhat pretentious drama has a great landscape and interesting faces to look at, filmed with inventive style by Tim Sidell who’s clearly watched a lot of Alexander Sokurov films. But writer-director Martin Radich’s script plays like a bag of jagged shards broken off from other miserabilist rural-set British films. Just like the Fenland-set The Goob (2014), for instance, writer-director Martin Radich’s work has its own menacing patriarch (Denis Ménochet), a winsome, educationally deprived teenage boy (Barry Keoghan) and a pretty east European immigrant (Lithuanian Goda Letkauskaitė, cast after being spotted in a Norwich park) all thrown into conflict when the son (none of the characters have actual names) discovers the...
Set in the squelchy, crushed-flat fields and pongy, primeval marshes of Norfolk’s Broadlands, this maddeningly oblique, somewhat pretentious drama has a great landscape and interesting faces to look at, filmed with inventive style by Tim Sidell who’s clearly watched a lot of Alexander Sokurov films. But writer-director Martin Radich’s script plays like a bag of jagged shards broken off from other miserabilist rural-set British films. Just like the Fenland-set The Goob (2014), for instance, writer-director Martin Radich’s work has its own menacing patriarch (Denis Ménochet), a winsome, educationally deprived teenage boy (Barry Keoghan) and a pretty east European immigrant (Lithuanian Goda Letkauskaitė, cast after being spotted in a Norwich park) all thrown into conflict when the son (none of the characters have actual names) discovers the...
- 9/22/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
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