Gabriel Bier Gislason, the son of Academy Award-winning Danish
filmmaker Susanne Bier, makes his directorial debut with Jewish themed
folk-horror Attachment.
The movie stars Josephine Park as Maja, a struggling Danish actress
who moves to London's Hasidic Jewish community when her English lover Leah
(Ellie Kendrick) falls ill. Struggling to win over Leah's mother
(Sofie Gråbøl), Maja begins to suspect something sinister is at
play. David Dencik also stars.
Attachment will receive its international premiere at the
Tribeca Film Festival on June 12th and will stream on Shudder later this
year.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Attachment is a horror romance about love at first sight, steeped in Jewish folklore. Maja, a Danish has-been actress falls in love with Leah, a young, Jewish academic from London. But when Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, leading to a debilitating injury, Maja fears their whirlwind romance might be cut short – and decides to follow Leah back to her home in the Hasidic area of Stamford Hill, London. There, she meets her new downstairs neighbor: Leah’s mother, Chana. An overbearing and secretive woman, Chana seems resistant to all of Maja’s attempts to win her over. And as Maja begins to notice strange occurrences in the building, she begins to suspect that Chana’s secrets could be much darker than first anticipated – and that the woman she loves might be carrying the biggest secret of all.