Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys spearhead a tight, clever, and unsettling thriller as parents forced into an ominous night-time drive.
At 2am, executive Frank and paramedic Maddie suddenly get a call from their daughter, who has caused a hit- and-run accident in the woods. Worried, they begin driving towards the accident while trying to help and comfort her by phone – but deeper threats, both in their family and at the accident, threaten to engulf them. Working from a debut script by NFTS graduate William Gillies, Under the Shadow director Babak Anvari creates another small, but original horror: a gripping, unpredictable world of menace emerges from what is largely an 80-minute, three-way conversation in a car. Pike and Rhys are reliably outstanding as the leads, giving it considerable dramatic depth and pathos beyond the genre’s typical offerings.
