Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
Cinematography
Fog-drenched Dutch countryside that breathes and watches back.
Score
Sound design that makes wind feel actively hostile.
Acting
Harmsen's unraveling is quiet, specific, devastating.
Director
Nico van den Brink
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moloch draws on genuine Dutch bog body archaeology — the Yde Girl and Weerdinge Men were real Iron Age sacrifices preserved in peat for millennia.
Director Nico van den Brink originally developed this as a series, which explains the almost frustrating density of family backstory crammed into 99 minutes.
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