Retreat is Ted Evans' feature debut, and stars Anne Zander as a young woman who visits an isolated retreat for deaf people in the English countryside, run by the imperious Mia (Sophie Stone). There she discovers a community that may have more in mind than providing a safe space that helps prepare its members for life in the uncaring world of the hearing. Hailed as the world's first deaf thriller – the film's principle cast and its director are deaf – the film's relationship with sound is particularly fascinating.
Honey Bunch is an eerie horror/thriller from Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, in which its central character Diana (Grace Glowicki) and her doting husband Homer (Ben Petrie) arrive at... yes, an isolated country house... so the former can recuperate from an unspecified recent accident. When we tell you Diana's injuries include brain trauma and memory loss, genre fans' twist-detecting spidey senses will immediately start tingling. Steeped in a late 70s Let's Scare Jessica to Death aesthetic, is an atmospheric affair – but did we like it? Find out!
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