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A man turns his back on his perfect life and sleeps with an underage prostitute in this well-acted but unlikely drama

Annabel (Ruta Gedmintas), a gallerist, and her architect husband, Joe (Tom Hughes), are ridiculously good-looking, wealthy enough to afford two or maybe more homes, and about to have their first child. But their perfectly appointed life with its chunky knits and innumerable shades of taupe is about to unravel. One night, for reasons never directly explained (perhaps writer-director Jane Linfoot thinks they are obvious and self-explanatory), Joe pays for sex with Lily (Tasha Connor), an underage girl who picks up customers out of a local pizza parlour. Then, a series of unfortunate and somewhat unlikely coincidences put Lily and Annabel on a collision course, leading to pointedly understated drama about how the middle classes fail to see the suffering and exploitation right in front of their retrousse noses. Gedmintas...

Exclusive: UK charity and former festival teams with Verve to release Jane Linfoot drama.

UK charity Birds Eye View, which previously ran the popular female oriented Birds Eye View Film Festival, is to make its first foray into UK distribution with the November 25 release of Jane Linfoot’s The Incident.

Birds Eye View will jointly release with UK distributor Verve, with the former contributing to the P&A budget.

The Incident stars Ruta Gedmintas (A Street Cat Named Bob), Tom Hughes (Cemetery Junction) and newcomer Tasha Connor. It tells the story of a successful young couple who see their comfortable lives disrupted and their relationship unravel when they each make a decision to ignore the plight of a troubled teenage girl.

The 2015 film, nominated for The Michael Powell Award on debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, was financed by the BFI Production Fund in association with Creativity Capital.

Director Linfoot said: “Birds Eye View is a dynamic...

Psychological drama stars Ruta Gedmintas, Tom Hughes and Tasha Connor.

Principal photography has commenced on The Incident (working title), a psychological drama that marks the debut feature of Jane Linfoot, a Screen International Star of Tomorrow in 2008.

Shooting will take place on location in Yorkshire over four weeks.

The film centres on metropolitan couple Annabel (Ruta Gedmintas) and Joe (Tom Hughes), who cross paths with Lily (Tasha Connor), a troubled, vulnerable teen. Annabel and Joe’s decision to ignore Lily provokes an unsettling incident that disrupts the couple’s comfortable lives, forcing them to confront their shared guilt.

Gedmintas is currently starring in new FX drama The Strain, created by Guillermo del Toro; Hughes starred in Cemetery Junction and more recently Richard Curtis’s About Time; and Connor recently finished filming X Plus Y alongside Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan.

Producers are Caroline Cooper Charles (Bunny and The Bull) and Sarada McDermott (Mrs Brown’s Boys...

★★★☆☆ Truth is often stranger and more unsettling than fiction, a fact which adds an extra chill to When the Lights Went Out (2012), the new British horror courtesy of writer/director Pat Holden. Based around what is considered to be one of Britain's most famous cases of supernatural phenomena, and starring Steven Waddington, Kate Ashfield and Tasha Connor, Holden's latest is made all the more disturbing due to its possible foundation in reality.

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I'll admit I was a bit dismissive of When the Lights Went Out, but now that I've seen the trailer, it has my attention.

Writer-director Pat Holden's film is set in the '70s and concerns a poltergeist that haunted a family in Yorkshire, England.

The Maynard Family move into their dream house, only to find a “presence” already living there. Len (Steve Waddington), Jenny (Kate Ashfield) and their daughter Sally (Tasha Connor) must struggle to keep their already-fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention. The house becomes a living nightmare. They must exorcise the evil spirits for them to survive.

We have a trailer touting the September 12th UK release, head inside for a look.

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Pat Holden's cousins were at the centre of a notorious haunting in the 1970s. Now he has turned their story into the gritty horror film When the Lights Went Out

It's easy to dismiss the claims of most horror movies that they are "based on real events". When the Lights Went Out is different. A groundbreaking kitchen-sink horror film, it brings rare social realist grit to the genre. We're in Yorkshire, in 1974, and an ordinary working-class family is terrorised by the malign spirit of a medieval monk.

This isn't mere fancy. Writer/director Pat Holden based the film on the haunting of his auntie Jean's council house at 30 East Drive, Pontefract. The events were a sensation locally, but largely unknown elsewhere until Colin Wilson wrote about them from witness interviews.

The ghoulie, which arrived briefly in 1966 and then reappeared for a protracted stay two years later, caused chaos. Holden...

We have a new trailer for When The Lights Went Out, a British haunted-house movie from director Pat Holden.

The film is scheduled to play initially in the UK at Yorkshire Cinemas on September 12th and then nationwide starting September 14th.

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Based on true events, the Pat Holden-directed thriller is set in Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession; the oil crisis and blackouts loom large. The Maynard family move into their dream house, only to find a “presence” already living there.

Len (Steve Waddington), Jenny (Kate Ashfield), and their daughter, Sally (Tasha Connor), must struggle to keep their already fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention. The house becomes a living nightmare. They must exorcise the evil spirits for them to survive.

Our cousins in horror Bloody Disgusting have premiered a new and exclusive trailer for British horror flick 'When the Lights Went Out'. The movie from writer/director Pat Holden is based on a true story of a small family living in a house in Yorkshire in the mid-70's who discover they're sharing their home with an out-of-control spirit. The flick will premiere here in the UK in Yorkshire Cinemas from 12 September with a subsequent nationwide opening across the country from the 14 September. Steven Waddington ('Sleepy Hollow'), Kate Ashfield ('Shaun of the Dead') and Tasha Connor all star. Head below to check out the creepy new trailer....

A brand new trailer for the latest spooker, When the Lights Went Out, has made its way online; and we have a look at it for you right here. A word of advice before you get started: You may want to leave your lights on!

The film will play across the pond at Yorkshire Cinemas on September 12th and nationwide in UK cinemas starting September 14th. Dig on the goods below courtesy of Bloody Disgusting.

Synopsis:

Based on true events, the Pat Holden-directed thriller is set in Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession; the oil crisis and blackouts loom large. The Maynard family move into their dream house, only to find a "presence" already living there.

Len (Steve Waddington), Jenny (Kate Ashfield), and their daughter, Sally (Tasha Connor), must struggle to keep their already fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention.

Few times in our daily activities have we seen a one-sheet that just stops us dead in our tracks. This is one of those times. Check out the latest artwork for When the Lights Went Out from world famous photographer Rankin.

Synopsis:

Based on true events, the Pat Holden-directed thriller is set in Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession; the oil crisis and blackouts loom large. The Maynard family move into their dream house, only to find a "presence" already living there.

Len (Steve Waddington), Jenny (Kate Ashfield) and their daughter, Sally (Tasha Connor), must struggle to keep their already fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention. The house becomes a living nightmare. They must exorcise the evil spirits for them to survive.

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A new trailer has shed some light on new Brit horror 'When the Lights Went Out'. The haunted house project, based on true events, written and directed by Pat Holden has already had some positive responses from those lucky enough to see it and the new trailer below certainly makes the project look all the more promising as a new respectable chiller. Steven Waddington ('Sleepy Hollow'), Kate Ashfield ('Shaun of the Dead') and Tasha Connor star as the down-to-earth Yorkshire family whose home is taken over by a malevolent spirit who turns their existence upside down. Check out the trailer below courtesy of Quiet Earth....

British horror 'When the Lights Went Out' (previously referred to as 'Speak No Evil') is the new supernatural chiller from writer/director Pat Holden. The project, based on true events, has just moved into post-production. The movie is based around the Maynard family who discover a 'presence' living in their new home. Steven Waddington ('Sleepy Hollow') and Kate Ashfield ('Shaun of the Dead') play new homeowners Len and Jenny who find theirselves, along with their daughter Sally (played by Tasha Connor), defending off malevolent poltergeists! Check out the teaser poster below....

Writer-director Pat Holden is in post-production on When the Lights Went Out , a horror film formerly known as Speak No Evil . Based on true events, the film is set in Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession, the oil crisis and black outs loom large. The Maynard Family move into their dream house, only to find a "presence" already living there. Len (Steve Waddington), Jenny (Kate Ashfield) and their daughter Sally (Tasha Connor) must struggle to keep their already-fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention. The house becomes a living nightmare. They must exorcise the evil spirits for them to survive.

A new chiller is coming our way from the UK from the producers of Bend it Like Beckham and Moon, and it offers fans looking for their horror fix another good reason to be afraid of the dark.

When The Lights Went Out, formerly Speak No Evil, is now in post production. Read on for details and artwork.

Based on true events, the Pat Holden-directed thriller is set in Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession, the oil crisis and blackouts loom large. The Maynard Family move into their dream house, only to find a "Presence" already living there.

Len (Steve Waddington), Jenny (Kate Ashfield) and their daughter, Sally (Tasha Connor), must struggle to keep their already fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention. The house becomes a living nightmare. They must exorcise the evil spirits for them to survive.