Writer/Director Olivia West Lloyd’s feature debut, Somewhere Quiet, interrogates what happens to the Final Girl after the credits roll.
Ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive teaser trailer that teases the haunting paranoia and unsettled sense of reality from surviving trauma.
In the film, “Months after escaping a brutal kidnapping, Meg travels with her husband, Scott, to his family’s isolated compound in Cape Cod, hoping the early winter quiet will give her space to recover and for them to reconnect. Shortly after they arrive, however, the couple discovers they are not alone on the property. Scott’s charming but overbearing cousin, Madelin, is staying next door. To Meg’s surprise, the two are quite close, and soon, Madelin’s presence is inescapable. With each passing day, Meg and Scott’s already fragile relationship begins to fracture, while Meg is haunted by vivid nightmares, visions of an old woman lurking in the woods, and a growing suspicion that Scott and Madelin are hiding something from her.
As the tension in the house grows, Meg begins to act out in increasingly reckless ways, setting into motion a series of disturbing events that shatters the thin barrier of civility between her and the cousins. Subtle manipulation gives way to violent confrontation as Scott and Madelin reveal their troubling history, and Meg learns the truth about her abduction.”
Somewhere quiet stars Jennifer Kim (She Dies Tomorrow), Kentucker Audley (V/H/S, She Dies Tomorrow), Marin Ireland (The Boogeyman, The Dark and the Wicked), and Micheál Neeson.
West Lloyd said in a director’s statement, “I began writing the script for Somewhere Quiet after watching a particularly brutal horror film. The final frame was of a girl – covered in blood, the rest of her group dead – waiting for the police to arrive. The film ended there, but it didn’t feel over to me. What happens to the girl who survives? If she’s lucky, she gets to go home. For a while, everyone will swarm her: her family, her friends, the media. But over time, those people will slip back into their normal routines, swallowed by the minutiae of their own lives. The news will forget about her, finding some new tragedy to obsess over. She will return to the mundane, carrying what happened to her into every banal moment of her forever-altered present.”
Somewhere Quiet makes its World Premiere tomorrow night, with subsequent screenings to follow:
Thursday, June 8 at 9:30pm – World Premiere
Friday, June 9 at 6:15pm
Wednesday, June 14 at 5:30pm
Tribeca Film Festival tickets are available now.
Stayed tuned for Bloody Disgusting’s full Tribeca 2023 coverage.
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