IFWT #24 - Calibre (2018)

Premiering at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and being released by Netflix a week later, Calibre is a film you’ll struggle to find fans of, but that’s certainly nothing doing to do with its quality. Following a pair of boarding school friends who go on a hunting trip in the Scottish Highlands, falling foul of the locals and finding themselves in a run for their life as they try to cover up a devastating mistake, it’s a modern horror classic with echoes of Deliverance, Wicker Man and An American Werewolf In London. We spend this episode examining its folk horror elements, its use of haunting landscape shots and, above all, it’s uncanny ability to incrementally increase the terror and suspense as the story progresses.