Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
Acting
Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough serve unhinged chemistry that should be illegal.
Writing
The script keeps flipping who you're rooting for until you give up entirely.
Direction
Komasa turns Yorkshire basements into psychological pressure cookers.
Director
Jan Komasa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham filmed their most intense scenes in a single 14-minute continuous take after two weeks of refusing to rehearse together.
The Yorkshire house was Komasa's actual childhood home; his parents still live upstairs and refused to move out during production.
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