A premiere date has been announced for The Last Thing Mary Saw, a genre piece we rather liked from earlier this year. The film played at FrightFest and Fantasia Festival this year, and will land on Shudder on 20th January.
The film stars Rory Culkin (Waco, Halston), Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) and is written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti, who makes his feature length film debut.
Here’s more about the story:
Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Scott), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Fuhrman), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are seeing, speaking, and acting on God’s behalf, view the girls’ relationship as an abomination, to be dealt with as severely as possible. The couple attempt to carry on in secret, but someone is always watching, or listening, and the wages of perceived sin threaten to become death, with the tension only heightened by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger (Culkin) and the revelation of greater forces at work.
We said:
Intense feelings of dread and foreboding fragrance the air in a film that marks writer and director Edoardo Vitaletti’s first venture into feature films as a solid debut.
You can read our full review of the film from Fantasia here.
