Munro Films has announced the release of horror movie The Ballad of Billy McCrae for this coming Friday and have sent over the trailer and poster for the film. The feature was shot in Port Talbot in Wales and stars David Hayman, Sianad Gregory and Ian Virgo. Full details below.
The synopsis for the movie is as follows:
Chris Blythe returns to his home town in Wales after losing a fortune in Canada. Billy’s daughter ELEN is a volatile and charismatic woman. She meets Chris and they fall in love. Billy is a dangerous man. His daughter Elen is a damaged and dangerous woman. And Chris finds himself torn between love and hate…
Director Chris Cow said this of his film: “For me, the film is part thriller, part melodrama, part tragedy and part Western, but is very much a film about real people and the ugly and cruel trappings of the human condition. I aimed to craft a fly on the wall Jacobean tragedy for a post-Brexit Tory Britain; there’s a cruelty to this world, selfishness, and we watch people infected by all this unravel and turn on each other to gain something that will never be as fulfilling as they imagine. I chose a gritty hand-held style but we also shot with degraded 70’s prime lenses, they add beauty to the footage, natural flares and light leaks. And visually I wanted to replicate our world where there’s dirt and noise in the grain and in the shadows.”
Check it out in cinemas from 24th September. Here’s the trailer and poster (above).
