When tragedy hits a small family and one young twin son is killed, the parents and remaining son relocate for a new start.

From the U.S. to a small Scandinavian town Rachel (Teresa Palmer) and her husband Anthony (Steven Cree) believe that the frigid weather and close knit surroundings will be healing for them all, including their surviving twin Elliot.

But when young Elliot makes a wish and begins believing that he is the dead twin, his brother Nathan everything begins to spiral in to darkness.

The townsfolk have something eerie about them – as does the entire town and the local eccentric, Helen, tries to warn Rachel, who ends up finding out herself what horrors bestow the land they have moved to.

The Twin is a slow burn of a film, it creeps up on you and gives you just enough at certain points to retain your engagement.

You begin to feel for the family, relate with Rachel all the while able to sit back and enjoy the twisted flow in to deep horror.

The more observant viewers will also get an after taste of Rosemary’s Baby in this film – I’ll leave that comment right there as I don’t want to add any spoilers. But I will say this, it then takes a very unexpected turn…

The Twin is an excellent eerie watch for a late night scare.

Check out our Interview with Steven Cree.

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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, released the trailer and date for the original film The Twin.

Starring Teresa Palmer (A Discovery of Witches, Warm Bodies, Lights Out) and Steven Cree (A Discovery of Witches, Outlander), the highly anticipated Scandinavian horror film from Shudder and RLJE Films will have a day-and-date release on Friday, May 6th 2022, premiering on Shudder platforms in the US, Canada, UKI and ANZ, as well as in theatres, On Demand and Digital in the US and Canada.

In The Twin, following the aftermath of a tragic accident that claimed the life of one of their twins, Rachel (Palmer) and husband Anthony (Cree) relocate to the other side of the world with their surviving son in the hopes of building a new life. What begins as a time of healing in the quiet Scandinavian countryside soon takes an ominous turn when Rachel begins to unravel the torturous truth about her son and confronts the malicious forces attempting to take a hold of him.

The English-language debut of writer/director Taneli Mustonen took part in FrontieĚres Platform, the genre-focused event run by Fantasia and Cannes’ Marché du Film and won the best fiction award at industry showcase Finnish Film Affair last year, as well as best project at the BIFAN development forum in Korea.

Written by Taneli Mustonen and Aleksi Hyvärinen and produced by Don Films’ Aleksi Hyvärinen (“Arrhythmia,” “Lake Bodom”), The Twin is executive produced by Joris van Wijk, Shudder’s Emily Gotto, Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff, and Post Control Helsinki’s Toni Valla. The film is backed by Shudder, Playtime, Nordisk Film, the Finnish Film Foundation, Estonian Film Institute and the Finnish television channel MTV3.

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