A couple years back, we introduced you guys to a ghostly horror flick called KNIFE EDGE from director Anthony Hickox (WAXWORK). The flick sounded pretty promising, yet it still took a very long time to get to us. Well, hopefully we won’t have to wait much longer because a brand new trailer has just been released. You can watch it by clicking below. First off, let me give you the detailed synopsis:
Blissfully happy in her new marriage to Henry, Emma has agreed to give up a successful career on Wall Street to return to England and give her 6-year-old son, Thomas, a new life. Henry has already chosen and purchased their dream home: an impressive mansion house miles from the city, Parkside Lodge, a house he admits to having felt inexplicably compelled to buy. She is reunited with her sister Flora, her wayward brother and the family solicitor, Clive Pollock, and all should be perfect, especially when she finds she is pregnant again. But Emma is beginning to feel increasingly uneasy. When she is left in the house alone, it seems to speak to her, every room and shadow trying to communicate… eventually drawing her down into the woods at the bottom of the beautiful gardens, and on towards a dead tree which stands out from the others. Emma’s dream of a perfect life is turning in to a nightmare. Emma is increasingly alarmed by a series of strange and terrifying happenings in the house. She becomes convinced that the key to unlocking Parkside’s secret lies deep in the woods. Emma turns into a paranoid shadow of her former self.
Sounds like a fairly typical haunted house/grounds story, but with Hickox at the helm, I think we can expect some cool and creepy style choices! The trailer somewhat reminds me of THE ORPHANAGE with images of a huge house in a foreign country and a young boy. If KNIFE EDGE can even get close to the greatness of that flick, then we’re in store for some good times. Hickox co-wrote the script with Robb Squire and Fiona Combe. The cast is composed of Nathalie Press, Hugh Bonneville, and Joan Plowright. We’re still waiting for the darn U.S. release date.