Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Dutch — subtitles on.
The story
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
- small town
- fog
- netherlands
- human sacrifice
- archaeologist
- festival
- family curse
- intruder
- folk horror
- mother daughter relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Anneke Blok — Elske
- Edon Rizvanolli — Radu
- Fred Goessens — Roelof
- Phi Nguyen — Lennard
- Noor van der Velden — Hanna
- Isabel Merbis — Young Betriek
- Renske Van Toever — Nurse
- Hansje van Welbergen — Young Elske
- Anne Lage Venterink — Young Feike
- Willemijn Kressenhof — Dr. Mensinck
- Johan Fretz — Edwin
- Directed
- Nico van den Brink
- Written
- Nico van den Brink, Daan Bakker
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 183 ratings
- Studio
- NL Film en TV, XYZ Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
