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Movie Review: Netflix’s Original Film ‘Apostle’ Is Simply Brilliant

Corruption, greed, envy, perversion, murder, all stand prominent in Netflix‘s feature film Apostle, from writer-director Gareth Evans (The Raid). In this dark, twisted, supernatural tale Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) journeys to the island where a cult is holding his sister hostage, on a mission to bring her home. The prophet Malcolm, played by Michael Sheen, rules his followers with an iron fist and the congregation believes his every word, going so far as to give their blood as a sacrifice, which he uses to feed the god he and the other two founders have bound in chains, though the colony is unaware of her presence. While Thomas secretly searches for his sister he stumbles across the truth behind the colony’s religion and it’s frightening. But what is more disturbing is how far the men that rule the island will go to keep their power and how quickly they turn on each other and their own families. The worst part of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 18, 2018

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Praise Is Sung In Apostle’s Final Trailer

From Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid, comes the brutal folk horror film Apostle whose final trailer sings its own praises. “Legion” actor Dan Stevens and Underworld‘s Michael Sheen star alongside Kristine Forseth with Lucy Boynton, Bill Milner, Mark Lewis Jones, Elen Rhys, and Annes Elwy co-starring. Set in London, 1905, “Prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined. Apostle is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 10, 2018

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Join The Cult Of ‘The Apostle’ This October On Netflix

From Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid comes the revenge thriller Apostle, starring Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Bill Millner, and Kristine Froseth. Set in “London, 1905, prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined. Apostle is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality behind it.” Apostle arrives on Netflix on October 12, 2018.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 31, 2018

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First Plot Details For Netflix’s ‘Apostle’, From The Director Of ‘The Raid’

Gareth Edwards, the director behind both The Raid and its sequel will be directing the upcoming cult thriller Apostle and we have a first look and plot details to share with you. Dan Stevens (The Guest) stars as a man trying to save his sister, played by Lucy Boynton (Murder on the Orient Express) from a cult. Michael Sheen, Bill Millner, and Kristine Froseth co-star. During a conversation with Collider, Boynton discussed her character who is the daughter of a cult leader. It’s slightly more story heavy than The Raid films,” she explained. “It’s about a cult and a guy goes to rescue his sister from the cult and I play the cult leader’s daughter who slightly starts to realize the darkness of all that her fathers cult entails.” In the film, set in 1905, Thomas Richardson (Stevens) travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult who is demanding a ransom

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 11, 2017

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