‘Apostle’ Trailer: Dan Stevens Faces A Cult In Gareth Evans' Netflix Horror Film
The RaiddirectorGareth Evansshifts from action to horror withApostle.The upcoming Netflix film findsDan Stevensgoing up against a religious cult that has kidnapped his sister. The film will premiere at Fantastic Fest this month before hitting Netflix in October. Watch theApostletrailer below.
Apostle Trailer
I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for any sort of religious-based horror. Same thing goes for horror movies set in the past – let me at ‘em.Apostleappears to push all those buttons, and more. Gareth Evans directs this horror flick set in 1905, with Dan Stevens trying to save his sister (Lucy Boynton) from a crazy religious cult. This is the second “man faces off against crazy cult” movie in recent months –Mandy, starring Nicolas Cage, has a similar premise.
Empire Magazine’s Simon Crook was lucky enough to pay a set visit toApostle, and was blown away by what he saw, as you’re able to see below.
Comparing this film to Ken Russell’sThe Devils– a truly bonkers work, and one of my all-time-favorite movies – has me very excited. Co-star Lucy Boynton offered some insight into the film in an interview withColliderlast year:
“It’s slightly more story heavy thanThe Raidfilms,” she explained. “It’s about a cult and a guy goes to rescue his sister from the cult and I play the cult leader’s daughter who slightly starts to realize the darkness of all that her fathers cult entails.”
Speaking with Flickering Myth, Dan Stevens added:
“I can tell you that there is a bit of action in there…The Raid 3 might be. A lot of people keep asking me, ‘is it The Raid 3 in disguise?’ I’d love it to be. It’s not. It’s really, I hope, a pretty special work. It was a really unique experience, very, very tough shoot, but Gareth Evans is a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker – the Welsh Tarantino – he’s quite something.”
Evans’ direction on theRaidfilms is extraordinary, and theV/H/S/2segment he helmed – Safe Haven, which is also about a cult – is one of the best entries in all of theV/H/Sfilms. In summation,Apostlehas a very real chance at being pretty damn incredible.Apostlewill have its debut at Fantastic Fest this month, before finding its way to Netflix onOctober 12, 2018.
The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.
