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Gnome Alone
RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 104 minutes
Director Jon Wright
Cast Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Kristian Nairn
It’s murder finding a good tradesperson these days, as Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and her partner Jamie (Douglas Booth) soon discover in this bizarro horror-comedy.
The couple are fleeing London in the wake of a home invasion. With grimly fortuitous timing Jamie’s Aunt Maeve passes away, bequeathing him a run-down cottage in rural Ireland. Trouble comes when they hire the unsavoury Whelan family, headed up by patriarch Colm (Star Trek’s Colm Meaney), to fix the place up. Then there’s the small matter of the redcaps – afolkloric race of little people said to live in the woods, who prove to be more than just a myth…