The plot and photography may fall short, but the tension between the two leads gives this horror a racy magnetism
Adding a racy dose of queer eroticism to the suspenseful dread of the horror film, Alex Birrell’s second feature settles on a familiar location: an isolated cabin nestled in the deep, dark woods. In the throes of a writer’s block, novelist Ben – played by the film’s co-writer, Joshua Tonks – is interrupted by the arrival of Jay Clift’s enigmatic stranger, who might or might not be a murderous sadist.
With his typewriter and vintage film camera, Ben is a self-professed lover of analogue gadgets. His clean-cut and generic T-shirt-and-jeans look makes for an interesting juxtaposition with his visitor, whose black mane and leather jacket cuts a classic 1970s serial killer figure. While the costuming choices are astute, other aspects of the visuals are forgettable: apart from a few canted Pov shots,...
Adding a racy dose of queer eroticism to the suspenseful dread of the horror film, Alex Birrell’s second feature settles on a familiar location: an isolated cabin nestled in the deep, dark woods. In the throes of a writer’s block, novelist Ben – played by the film’s co-writer, Joshua Tonks – is interrupted by the arrival of Jay Clift’s enigmatic stranger, who might or might not be a murderous sadist.
With his typewriter and vintage film camera, Ben is a self-professed lover of analogue gadgets. His clean-cut and generic T-shirt-and-jeans look makes for an interesting juxtaposition with his visitor, whose black mane and leather jacket cuts a classic 1970s serial killer figure. While the costuming choices are astute, other aspects of the visuals are forgettable: apart from a few canted Pov shots,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
"He had to hold his breath before he realized the pounding in his ears was his own heartbeat." Cinephobia Releasing + Bounty Films has released an official trailer for The Latent Image, a British mystery thriller set at a cabin in the US. This initially premiered at the 2022 Soho Horror Film Festival in London last year, with a US release set for September. A handsome stranger appears at a young thriller writer's cabin deep in the American wilderness. This stranger unexpectedly provides a source of inspiration, sexual interest and fear... Mysterious, intriguing, attractive and terrifying, has he found the perfect inspiration for his new book or are his darkest fantasies about to come to life? The small ensemble cast of this indie horror feature includes Joshua Tonks, William Tippery, and Jay Clift as the stranger. It is adapted from a short film made by the director previously. This looks better than it sounds,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Alexander McGregor Birrell’s homoerotic thriller Latent Image has landed distribution deals for North America, the U.K., as well as Australia and New Zealand in deals brokered by U.K. sales outfit 7&7 Producers’ Sales Service.
Latent Image — which is having its premiere market screening at the European Film Market in Berlin — stars Joshua Tonks as a crime fiction author struggling with writer’s block. Inspiration comes in in the dead of night in the form of a mysterious, dangerously handsome, stranger (Jay Clift) who offers to act out scenes for the writer’s serial-killer novel. As the night unfolds, their connection becomes intense as life begins to mirror the writer’s imagination with brutal consequences.
Raymond Murray’s Cinephobia Releasing has acquired rights for North America and the U.K., while Tony Romeo’s Bounty Films will be releasing the film in Australia and New Zealand.
Latent Image is...
Latent Image — which is having its premiere market screening at the European Film Market in Berlin — stars Joshua Tonks as a crime fiction author struggling with writer’s block. Inspiration comes in in the dead of night in the form of a mysterious, dangerously handsome, stranger (Jay Clift) who offers to act out scenes for the writer’s serial-killer novel. As the night unfolds, their connection becomes intense as life begins to mirror the writer’s imagination with brutal consequences.
Raymond Murray’s Cinephobia Releasing has acquired rights for North America and the U.K., while Tony Romeo’s Bounty Films will be releasing the film in Australia and New Zealand.
Latent Image is...
- 2/17/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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