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Starring Samantha Bond, Emily Berrington, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, and Joseph Marcell, The Strangers in Our Bed is now available and we have a clip that you can watch right now!

"A happily married woman leaves her husband for a lover who mysteriously disappears. Things start to unravel and become life-threatening on a trip to the husband’s family estate."

Distributor: TriCoast Worldwide Theatrical/VOD/DVD Release Date: August 26, 2022 Director: Giles Alderson Writer: Samantha Lee Howe Producers: Terri Dwyer, Dean Fisher Executive Producers: Greg Barrow, Samantha Lee Howe Starring: Emily Berrington, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Samantha Bond, Nina Wadia, Bart Edwards, Terri Dwyer, Andi Osho, Joseph Marcell, Paul Casar Runtime: 90 mins



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New U.K. independent production company Buffalo Dragon has launched with an adaptation of Samantha Lee Howe’s bestselling novel “The Stranger In Our Bed.”

The psychological thriller stars Samantha Bond (“Downton Abbey”), Emily Berrington (“Humans”) and Ben Lloyd Hughes (“Industry”).

The film, directed by Giles Alderson (“The Dare”), from a screenplay by Samantha Lee Howe, sees a seemingly happily married woman leave her husband for a lover who mysteriously disappears.

The cast also includes Joseph Marcell (“Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”), Nina Wadia (“Aladdin”), Andi Osho (“I May Destroy You”), Bart Edwards (“The Witcher”) and Paul Casar (“Detectorists”).

Production is currently underway in London under strict Covid-19 rules. Buffalo Dragon is owned by Terri Dwyer and Greg Barrow. Dwyer is producing alongside Dean Fisher of Scanner Rhodes Productions.

“The industry has already been crushed by the pandemic and we wanted to find a project we felt we could do whilst...

Let’S Be Evil

Stars: Elizabeth Morris, Kara Tointon, Elliot James Langridge, Isabelle Allen, Jamie Bernadette, Brooke Johnston, Martin Owen, Helene Wilson, Paul Casar, Jonathan Willis, Billie Wilson, Aimee Wright | Written by Elizabeth Morris, Martin Owen, Jonathan Willis | Directed by Martin Owen

Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny (Morris) takes a job supervising children at a learning centre for gifted students. But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual game.

Techno-horror is a genre that, given my previous experiences with films of this nature, is really hard to get right. The reliance on the technology within, techno-babble et al. can, and often does, overwhelm the story the filmmakers are trying to tell.