We have just passed the halfway point to Halloween of this year, and to celebrate, horror streaming giant Shudder has ramped up their already abundant content. The platform always has a steady stream of interesting projects popping up; at the moment they have a plethora of world premieres, including The Twin. The film is the English-language debut of writer/director Taneli Mustonen who took part in Frontieres Platform, the genre-focused event run by Fantasia and Cannes’ Marché du Film and won the best fiction award at industry showcase Finnish Film Affair last year, as well as best project at the BIFAN development forum in Korea.
Following the aftermath of a tragic accident that claimed the life of one of their twin sons, Rachel (Teresa Palmer) and her husband Anthony (Steven Cree) relocate to the other side of the world with their surviving son in the hopes of building a new life. What begins as a time of healing in the quiet Scandinavian countryside soon takes an ominous turn when Rachel begins to unravel the torturous truth about her son and confronts the malicious forces attempting to take a hold of him.
Steven Cree is an actor probably best known for his time on both Outlander and A Discovery of Witches (in which he first co-starred with Teresa Palmer). In The Twin he plays Anthony, a man who on the surface appears to be handling his bereavement better than his distraught and grief-stricken wife. The conflict and inner workings of the character are interesting to watch unfold, and are exactly the type of role that actors are always itching to play. On the eve of the film’s release onto Shudder we spoke with Cree to find out more about the production, his own experience with eerie children (or at least the creepy things they say), and how musical theatre got him into acting.
The Twin is available to watch on Shudder now.
