Two people meet on a stormy night: a young woman, completely soaked, seeks shelter in the remote caravan of the bearish hermit Patrick. She came from the beach and found him by chance, she says. In this storm? At 2 o'clock in the morning? Despite his skepticism, Patrick gives the visitor shelter. But as the storm intensifies with every rumble, the atmosphere in the trailer becomes more and more oppressive. Is someone playing the wrong game here?
Two people, four walls, millions and millions of raindrops. Alfred Hitchcock already knew how to use minimal settings to create maximum suspense. But what Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell have constructed here in their feature film debut (!) is such a highly concentrated distillation of a chamber play that it should not only make claustrophobics sweat. This nasty, superbly filmed slow burner carefully but consistently turns all the screws until diffuse unease turns into sheer terror.
