Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Canada
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
- farm
- radiation
- widow
- murder
- cancer
- rural area
- killer
- nuclear
- midwest
- ex soldier
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Duncan Fraser — Luke Dove
- David Longworth — Joshua
- Robert Koons — Sheriff Ticker
- David Bloom — Deputy
- Evan Hall — Kim
- Codie Lucas Wilbee — Eben
- Sherry Bie — Cassie
- Jason Wolfe — Cadillac Driver
- Dean Hass — Passenger
- Guy Buller — Passenger
- Jason Brownlow — Passenger
- Directed
- Philip Ridley
- Written
- Philip Ridley
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 228 ratings
- Studio
- BBC Film, Fugitive Features, British Screen Productions, National Film Trustee Company, Zenith Entertainment, Award Films International
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.
