On November 2, 2016, it was announced that Gareth Evans was working on a new project that he would write and direct. Dan Stevens was confirmed to be cast in the lead role. In March 2017, the film was picked up by Netflix. Later that month, it was announced that Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Bill Milner and Kristine Froseth had joined the cast. Filming started in April 2017. The film was largely shot on a set built at Margam Park in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
Apostle
(2018)3
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Spoken Language | english, chinese |
Runtime | 2 hr 10 min |
Premiere: USA | September 21, 2018 |
Digital: World | October 12, 2018 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, ... |
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Also Known As | Apóstol United States |
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In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 18
If you’re on the hunt for a frightening and original horror movie, it’s a stellar choice.
Apostle is ultimately an absorbing, horrifying movie that’s maybe not as smart as it wants to be. But it is a lot stranger, and more dis...
That rarest of treats: a horror movie that starts out as one thing, and finishes having mutated into another.
(Dan Stevens) true calling is clearly to be covered in viscera and forced to face off against a power-mad Michael Sheen in a grisly and gory h...
A sharp dissection of religious fervour abetted by cinematic extremes.
I’m not sure 'Apostle' quite justifies its 130-minute running time, but you have to say this about it: It’s like nothing else you could...
Shifting his energies to a Victorian-era island blood cult hasn’t dimmed Evans' taste for feverish body harm, but it’s more clearl...
A Gothic horror mystery that’s less like an adrenaline shot to the heart than a rusty, hand-cranked drill to the skull.
A muddled Wicker Man-inspired horror that has bursts of style, but fails to find depth beneath its blood-spewing surface.
By the time Apostle arrives at its big reveal, the movie has veered off on so many tangled pathways that the ending can’t resolve them all.
Feels like a mash-up of 2015's arthouse chiller The Witch and 1973's original The Wicker Man, without being as engagingly creepy as either one...
Evans will likely disappoint many of the fans he has attracted here; while the film does build to some gory battles, it’s hardly a thril...
But for the most part, it’s a breathlessly oppressive experience, a dark and sometimes strikingly beautiful film that lives up to its mo...
Alas, everything here is muted build-up with little pay-off. Psychological realism is abandoned. Characters switch loyalties and temperaments for n...
Evans departs from his usual action fare to weave a gripping story centered around unique Pagan-like mythology steeped in blood and sacrifice...
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Not too viewer-friendly, but an unpredictable horror-western about yet another false prophets and their flock. Michael Sheen and Mother Earth are in the picture. It’s good that Netflix finances such semi-arthouse projects; "The Apostle" would definitely have failed in wide release. Translated to English
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Religion is scary. Especially when it’s closer to nature. A creepy movie. Midsommar and The Wicker Man come to mind. Translated to English