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 Natasha Kermani explores these perennial considerations in The Dreadful, a magnificent horror film that examines power and manipulation. Inspired by Kaneto Shindô’s 1964 masterpiece, Onibaba, her gothic take on the Shinto-Buddhist folk legend follows two women bound by a single man whose death tests their devotion. Can morality survive in a world dominated by capitalist greed? And how far will we go to protect ourselves? The Dreadful exposes the corrosive nature of the stories we tell ourselves to justify our desires. Director: Natasha Kermani Writer: Natasha Kermani Stars: Sophie Turner, Kit Harington, Marcia Gay Harden Anne (Sophie Turner) lives a mostly peaceful life in a quiet cove in medieval England. She shares her humble house with her mother-in-law, Morwen (Marcia Gay Harden), as they patiently await the return of her husband, Seamus (Laurence O’Fuarain), from the war. Comparatively poor, the women survive on the produce of their small garden and what they can scavenge or ...