“Phantom Thread” star Vicky Krieps is deepening her onscreen presence with a haunting ghost story, “Went Up the Hill.” Titled after the nursery music (the lead characters are Jack and Jill), the function facilities on Krieps’ character, who for the primary time meets her stepson after Krieps loses her spouse to suicide. In her grief, the 2 every turn out to be possessed by the spirit of Krieps’ useless spouse.
The extraordinary trailer, which you’ll watch beneath, sums up the premise with the tagline, “Three Souls. Two Our bodies.” The official synopsis reads: “Deserted as a toddler, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) travels to distant New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mom Elizabeth. There he meets her widow, Jill (Krieps), who has questions of her personal. Over the nights that comply with, Elizabeth returns and possesses Jack and Jill, utilizing every of their our bodies to talk to the opposite. Jill faces Elizabeth’s suicide, whereas Jack confronts his abandonment. As they be taught she is trapped in limbo, Jack begins to doubt Elizabeth’s cause for returning. Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill should discover a technique to let go of Elizabeth’s maintain earlier than she pushes them to the sting.”
Samuel Van Grinsven (“Sequin in a Blue Room”) writes and directs “Went Up the Hill.” The psychological drama additionally stars Sarah Peirse. Vicky Pope, Samantha Jennings, and Kristina Ceyton, who’ve been behind movies like “Speak to Me” and “The Babadook,” are producers on the undertaking.
“Went Up the Hill” premiered on the 2024 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, the place it was acquired by Greenwich Leisure.
The IndieWire overview cited how the themes of possession, each actually and emotionally, drive the function. “Whether or not you imagine in possession will doubtless dictate how far you’re keen to trip with ‘Went Up the Hill,’ and whereas Van Grinsven and co-writer Jory Anast battle to unspool some key parts of mentioned possession (although the ‘guidelines’ of it will definitely snap into place within the closing act, a giant assist), Krieps and Montgomery promote the hell out of it,” the overview reads.
Greenwich Leisure will launch “Went Up the Hill” in theaters August 15. Take a look at the trailer beneath.