As supporting actor and executive producer, Mark Rylance generously supplies some valuable ballast and substance to an interesting, but underdeveloped and underimagined debut work from writer-director Fridtjof Ryder. It’s an atmospheric mood piece set in and around the Forest of Dean which doesn’t quite deliver either as psychological drama or folk horror, and might have been better boiled down to a short film.
Rory Alexander plays a troubled young man who has just been let out of a psychiatric facility after what appears to be a breakdown caused by the disappearance of his mother some years before. There are some disturbing dream-setpieces in the woods (perhaps the one this man sees at night) featuring a woman and a little boy.
