The story centres on three brothers and their violent father who live in a remote forest. The brothers attempt to kill their father while on a hunting expedition but this instead begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Acting
Paul Higgins' simmering patriarchal menace
Cinematography
Scottish Highlands as claustrophobic nightmare
Practical Effects
Gritty, wet, miserable survival realism
Director
Rodger Griffiths
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film inverts traditional Scottish 'man vs nature' tropes by making nature indifferent while family becomes the true predator.
Daniel Portman (Henry) is best known as Podrick in Game of Thrones — this is his feral redemption arc.
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