...from debut writer-director Leigh Janiak, released by Magnet. Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway star as a newlywed American couple who decide to spend their honeymoon in a remote cabin in the Canadian wilderness. After a few days of bliss, things take a turn when Treadaway finds Leslie apparently sleepwalking in the woods late one night. She doesn't seem quite the same afterward, forgetting things and with strange injuries on her body. The husband's dread starts to grow even stronger as the wife's condition worsens.
I can't reveal too much about the plot as the less known the better. Leslie and Treadaway, both British performers best known for TV roles (she on Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones, he from Penny Dreadful), are good, although I have to wonder why they didn't cast American or Canadian performers for the American roles. This is a slow-burn thriller, and audiences have to be patient, although I thought the film went on about 10 minutes too long, and it only ran 87 minutes in total, so some fleshing out of the script would have helped. Still, for a debut feature from a new filmmaker, it is notable. North Carolina stands in for Canada.
I can't reveal too much about the plot as the less known the better. Leslie and Treadaway, both British performers best known for TV roles (she on Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones, he from Penny Dreadful), are good, although I have to wonder why they didn't cast American or Canadian performers for the American roles. This is a slow-burn thriller, and audiences have to be patient, although I thought the film went on about 10 minutes too long, and it only ran 87 minutes in total, so some fleshing out of the script would have helped. Still, for a debut feature from a new filmmaker, it is notable. North Carolina stands in for Canada.