We interview Kindred director Joe Marcantonio. Head's up (and listen to this): If you ever find you have become a character in a film, and Fiona Shaw is playing another character in the film, and suddenly you find that Fiona Shaw is being really, really nice to you—really concerned about your well-being, when before she wasn't very nice—there is only one proper response. Run. Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) does this several times during the tension-filled length of the new horror film Kindred, but her running doesn't quite turn out the way she planned. Let's back up. Charlotte is pregnant, and her boyfriend Ben (Edward Holcroft, in a brief but memorable appearance) has just died in an extremely sudden, violent, unfortunate, and ironic way. This leaves Charlotte more or less at the mercy of Ben's exceedingly wealthy mother Margaret (Fiona Shaw) and stepbrother Thomas (Jack Lowden), in a vast house that could best be described as witheringly and convincingly creepy. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 30 November, 2020