Park ranger Angelica seeks the help of her former boyfriend, Viktor, a dog handler, to search for a missing woman in a dangerous nature reserve which has long inspired disturbing legends about the Cave Banshee, a vengeful spirit from Nordic folklore that once lured miners to their deaths in the region. As they delve deeper into the forest, they start to question their own sanity and whether local myths might contain an element of truth.
Director Philip W. da Silva, producer Gustav Stern, and cast members, Oscar Skagerberg and Peter Morlin will present and Q&A.
GRIMMFEST SAYS: Guilt, emotional damage and fear of the dark collide with local legend, a treacherous landscape, and an unseen threat in Philip W. de Silva’s engrossing, emotionally harrowing and visually stunning fusion of Scandi-noir, Swedish mythology, and the supernatural. Making the most of some striking and decidedly spooky night-time forest locations, the film stokes up the sense of unseen threat; slyly evoking THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in its mythic backstory and escalating sense of suffocating panic, as it plays off police procedural and psychological thriller against something altogether more intangible and elusive, continually wrong-footing the viewer along with its protagonists, as secrets are revealed, motivations uncovered, and nothing proves to be quite as clear-cut as first appears.
Part of our TERROR IN THE TREES strand.