Check out this brand new trailer for the inbound British thriller Accused from acclaimed filmmaker Phillip Barantini. The movie is set to debut on Netflix UK next month, a September 22nd debut set.
Accused is directed by Barantini (Boiling Point, Villain) and stars Chaneil Kular (Sex Education), Jay Johnson (Boiling Point, The Keeper), Robbie O’Neill (Boiling Point, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel), Frances Tomelty (The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Vanity Fair), Nitin Ganatra (Bride & Prejudice, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Nila Aalia (The Commuter, A Discovery of Witches) and Lauren Ajuyo (Boiling Point, Luther: The Fallen Sun). It is written by Barnaby Boulton and James Cummings and produced by Samantha Beddoe, Sara Sehdev, Ed Caffrey & Rupert Preston.
Accused is a described as a tense and gripping new psychological thriller which looks at racial injustices at the same time as pulling apart the ethics of social media.
The synopsis is as follows.
False accusations mix with the wildfire spread of social media with deadly consequences when twenty-something Harri travels from the city to dog sit for his parents in the countryside. After being mistaken as the suspect of a train bombing in London, would-be heroes of the people track down his house, where Harri must prove his innocence to the online masses and defend his home and himself from the violent vigilantes.
Here’s the trailer.
