A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
Cinematography
16mm film grain makes every sunset feel like evidence.
Acting
Paul Sparks simmers with desperate ambition; Bruce Dern haunts.
Sound
Will Oldham's score and prairie silence do equal damage.
Director
Kyle Armstrong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely in and around Edmonton with local non-actors mixed among the professionals; Bruce Dern's role was written specifically for him after a chance meeting with Armstrong.
Armstrong cited the 1980s 'Satanic Panic' and actual Alberta cattle mutilation cases as direct inspiration—this is prairie gothic rooted in real regional paranoia.
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