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IFC Midnight Serves Up The Trailer For ‘A Banquet’

Let the new trailer for the psychodrama A Banquet whet your appetite ahead of the film’s release this February. Directed by Ruth Paxton and starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, the film centers on widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) “who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.” A Banquet opens in select theaters and arrives on Digital Platforms and VOD on February 18, 2022, from IFC Midnight.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 27, 2022

Religious Horror ‘A Banquet’ Conjures A February Release Date & Trailer

Award-winning Scottish director Ruth Paxton‘s religious horror, A Banquet, is due to be released this February. The new trailer teases a dark film filled with horror as we meet a mother and daughter experiencing trials and tribulations that will stay with them forever. In the film, “widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs. A Banquet, starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, and written by Justin Bull, is set to be released on February 18, 2022, on VOD and Digital, from IFC Midnight.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2022
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Movie Reviews (Toronto International Film Festival): You Are Not My Mother and A Banquet

Beginning with one of the most harrowing scenes in recent memory, writer/director Kate Dolan’s Halloween-set Irish horror outing You Are Not My Mother serves up traditional European folklore in a modern urban setting. The result is one of the most thrilling, eerie cinematic experiences of this year. High-school student Char (Hazel Doupe) reluctantly accepts a ride to school from her seemingly depressed mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken), who almost drives the car straight into a horse. Angela disappears later that day but returns in a few days; however, she now seems to be in lighter moods, more active, and more engaged regarding spending time with Char. At first the bullied teen seems cautiously optimistic about her mother’s new behavior, but soon Angela begins displaying increasingly disturbing bearings. Char’s grandmother Rita (Ingrid Craigie), who makes talismans for protection, warns Char about a supernatural presence behind Angela, but Char wants none of that because she has heard schoolmates and neighbors mock her family

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Joseph Perry
Sep 14, 2021
Horror Fuel

IFC Midnight Snags The Rights To Horror Thriller ‘A Banquet’

IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to A Banquet, the feature debut from Ruth Paxton, whose award-winning short films have been exhibited and nominated at film festivals worldwide. A Banquet is a visually arresting, slow-burning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family in the midst of a breakdown, exploiting the complicated bond between three generations of mothers and daughters. The film stars Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil film series, High Rise), British rising stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even), Ruby Stokes (Rocks, Una), and award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan CBE (Made in Italy, Private Lives). In the film, widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2020

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IFC Midnight Serves Up The Trailer For ‘A Banquet’

Let the new trailer for the psychodrama A Banquet whet your appetite ahead of the film’s release this February. Directed by Ruth Paxton and starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, the film centers on widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) “who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.” A Banquet opens in select theaters and arrives on Digital Platforms and VOD on February 18, 2022, from IFC Midnight.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 27, 2022

Religious Horror ‘A Banquet’ Conjures A February Release Date & Trailer

Award-winning Scottish director Ruth Paxton‘s religious horror, A Banquet, is due to be released this February. The new trailer teases a dark film filled with horror as we meet a mother and daughter experiencing trials and tribulations that will stay with them forever. In the film, “widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs. A Banquet, starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan, and written by Justin Bull, is set to be released on February 18, 2022, on VOD and Digital, from IFC Midnight.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2022
Horror Fuel

Movie Reviews (Toronto International Film Festival): You Are Not My Mother and A Banquet

Beginning with one of the most harrowing scenes in recent memory, writer/director Kate Dolan’s Halloween-set Irish horror outing You Are Not My Mother serves up traditional European folklore in a modern urban setting. The result is one of the most thrilling, eerie cinematic experiences of this year. High-school student Char (Hazel Doupe) reluctantly accepts a ride to school from her seemingly depressed mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken), who almost drives the car straight into a horse. Angela disappears later that day but returns in a few days; however, she now seems to be in lighter moods, more active, and more engaged regarding spending time with Char. At first the bullied teen seems cautiously optimistic about her mother’s new behavior, but soon Angela begins displaying increasingly disturbing bearings. Char’s grandmother Rita (Ingrid Craigie), who makes talismans for protection, warns Char about a supernatural presence behind Angela, but Char wants none of that because she has heard schoolmates and neighbors mock her family

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Sep 14, 2021
Horror Fuel

IFC Midnight Snags The Rights To Horror Thriller ‘A Banquet’

IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to A Banquet, the feature debut from Ruth Paxton, whose award-winning short films have been exhibited and nominated at film festivals worldwide. A Banquet is a visually arresting, slow-burning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family in the midst of a breakdown, exploiting the complicated bond between three generations of mothers and daughters. The film stars Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil film series, High Rise), British rising stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even), Ruby Stokes (Rocks, Una), and award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan CBE (Made in Italy, Private Lives). In the film, widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 4, 2020