A Banquet looks to be the fix people need if a suspenseful psychological thriller is what you're after this new year, with its first trailer being released.
Starring Luther's Sienna Guillory, Bridgerton's Ruby Stokes, Jessica Alexander and Lindsay Duncan, A Banquet is an unsettling horror from director Ruth Paxton.
Ahead of its release in March, A Banquet has offered a glimpse of its uncanny, simmering tension, where a widowed mother is locked in a battle with her teenage daughter.
Sienna Guillory plays mum Holly, while Jessica Alexander plays troubled daughter Betsey.
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The family's trauma begins to unfold when Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power.
The synopsis continues: "Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs."
Opening up about her inspiration for A Banquet, filmmaker Paxton called the movie "a psychological horror". "Ultimately, it's about what's going on in our heads and what we believe," she explained.
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"A lot of my work talks about mental ill health, and I'm interested in the subconscious," she added. "The stuff we can't see, basically. So for a horror, it was right up my street."
A Banquet will open in UK Cinemas and will be available to download across digital platforms on Friday, March 11.
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