Breaking Glass Pictures’ Vicious Circle Films label will release THE HIDE on DVD on September 6. Special features will include a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and the trailer. The cover art can be seen below. The taut thriller follows a lonesome birdwatcher who encounters a man on the run while in the isolated mudflats of Suffolk.
The British film, completed back in 2008, is described as a “tense, minimalist drama.” First-timer Marek Losey directs from a script by Tim Whitnall, who also wrote the play on which it was based. Alex MacQueen and Phil Campbell star.
Roy Tunt is a quirky loner who spends his days in a “hide” – a secluded seaside shelter where he watches and documents the many species of birds that pass over the shoreline. One gloomy day, his meticulous routine is interrupted by the arrival of David, a mysterious man on the run from the police. Though Roy is at first hostile towards the intruder, the two men gradually let their guards down and find themselves engaged in deep discussion through which they form a strange bond. But as the police draw near, both Roy and David unleash their dark sides, and the escalating tension pushes them to a tragic conclusion.
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