First look at the latest thriller from the director of The Raid.
Gareth Evans (The Raid) is one of a crop of high profile filmmakers with movies premiering on Netflix in the coming months. In a departure from the martial arts actioners he built his name on, Apostle sees Evans take viewers back to the 1900s for what appears to be a dose of folk horror with elements of The Wicker Man and The Witch.
Dan Stevens plays a man who travels to a remote island in search of his sister, who has fallen under the influence of a cult led by Michael Sheen. Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones, Bill Milner, Kristine Froseth and Paul Higgins also star.
Apostle is on Netflix October 12th, 2018.
Check out the first trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.