A chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets a handsome young university student on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder.
Acting
Lee Williams' unraveling is genuinely haunting
Cinematography
Bleak British coast as accomplice to desire
Direction
Shankland lets dread accumulate like tide
Director
Tom Shankland
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Adapted from Barbara Vine's novel; Ruth Rendell wrote it under a pseudonym to explore darker psychological territory than her Inspector Wexford series allowed.
A rare early-2000s British thriller centering queer desire as both erotic and destructive—reflecting the era's complicated relationship with gay visibility in crime narratives.
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