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Sacrifice is a strange film. Director Peter A. Dowling treats his audience as if they’d already read author Sharon Bolton’s source novelization, and know exactly what’s going to happen. As soon as Sacrifice rockets straight through a rapid-fire credits sequence filled with foreshadowing images, we know the Exact movie we’re getting. Nothing is hidden and tension is sparse.

It’s almost as if Dowling has his thumb on the fast-forward button, speeding his film towards an inevitable ending that’s projected more times than we can count. No mystery, no suspense, and certainly no thrills – just wooden, cult generalizations and wasted potential.

Radha Mitchell stars as Dr. Tora Hamilton, a wife who cannot give birth due to recent health complications. Distraught and discouraged, Tora travels to her husband Duncan’s (Rupert Graves) homeland – the Shetland Islands – where they apply to adopt a local child. Since there...

No stranger to devious and terrifying goings-on, Silent Hill star Radha Mitchell is about to come face to face with the Devil. Read on for details about her Sacrifice!

Screen Daily reports that Mitchell will star in the adaptation of S.J. Bolton's novel of the same name, alongside Rupert Graves and Colm Meaney. Mitchell will play a consultant surgeon trying in vain to have a child with her husband, played by Graves.

Her discovery of a mutilated woman’s body leads to shocking revelations as her husband, boss and local police try to persuade her to drop the matter.

Peter Dowling (Flight Plan) wrote the screenplay and will direct, and production is scheduled to begin in Dublin in late March.

Arnold Rifkind’s Cheyenne Enterprises will produce with Ireland-based Subotica.

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Peter A. Dowling, the man who penned 2008 airborne thriller 'Flightplan', is set to write and helm new adaptation thriller 'Sacrifice'. The story is based upon the cult-themed novel by S.J. Bolton and already has a trio of talent attached. 'Silent Hill's Radha Mitchell (below) will star in the lead role as obstetrician Tora Hamilton, who becomes obsessed with the discovery of a mystery women's remains. She'll be joined by 'Sherlock' star Rupert Graves, who'll be on board to play her husband, whilst Colm Meaney ('Con Air', 'Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa') will also play a part. The movie is due to begin filming in Dublin in late March....

Exclusive: Fox 2000 has acquired Highrise, a spec script by Peter Dowling (Flight Plan) that is described as a lush 21st century thriller inspired by the 1960s classic, The Collector. Jon Shestack is producing, and Fox 2000 exec veep Jessica Goodman will oversee for the studio. A director is not yet attached. Filming just wrapped on Dowling’s script Reasonable Doubt, starring Dominic Cooper and Samuel L. Jackson and produced by Paradox Entertainment and Lionsgate. He will also soon be heading to Ireland to direct his adaptation of S.J. Bolton’s thriller Sacrifice, with Howard Kaplan and John Baldecchi producing. Dowling is repped by Apa, Industry Entertainment, and Eric Feig at Abrams, Garfinkel, Margolis, Bergson, Llp.

“It’s not safe here. Not for little girls…” whispers a cautionary voice in the haunting trailer for the mysterious Blood Harvest, which we are happy to be the first to share. While details are scarce on this one, we do know the director is Nele Hecht, apparently making their way from crew (gaffer, camera assistant on various projects), to the director’s chair, and the results are beautifully chilling. The movie is based on S.J. Bolton’s 2010 book of the same name.

Blood Harvest book synopsis (courtesy Minotaur Books):

“The Fletchers’ beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that they’re anything but welcome. Someone seems to...