IFC Films and Shudder have shared the official trailer and poster for Consecration, starring Jena Malone and Danny Huston. The movie will open in theaters on February 10.
Directed by Christopher Smith (Black Death, Severance), Consecration is rated R for bloody violent content and some language by the MPA. The movie has a runtime of 90 minutes.
In Consecration, after the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened.
Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.
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Written by Christopher Smith and Laurie Cook, the movie also stars Dame Janet Suzman and Thoren Ferguson.
The producers include Laurie Cook, Jason Newmark, Xavier Marchand, Casey Herbert and Stuart Ford. The cinematographers are Rob Hart and Shaun Mone. The editor is Arthur Davis.
Christopher Smith is a highly-established British filmmaker having directed some of Britain’s most popular genre films to date. In 2004, Chris wrote and directed his debut Creep, a horror film that follows a woman trapped on the London underground whilst being hunted by a mysterious attacker.
His next film was the comedy-horror Severance, which screened at festivals all over the world.
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In 2009, Chris directed the mystery thriller Triangle, followed by the epic medieval action thriller Black Death in 2010, which starred Eddie Redmayne and Sean Bean.
Smith then went on to write and direct the family comedy Get Santa, starring Jim Broadbent, followed by Detour in 2016.
Recently, Smith has been focusing on TV, directing episodes of Sony’s TV reboot of Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider and Sky’s Temple.
Returning to the horror genre, Smith directed The Banishing, starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Sean Harris. Set in the 1930s, the film follows a family moving into their new home and the horrors that unfold.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.