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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #66. Gareth Evans’ Apostle

Published on January 16, 2018

Apostle

Making a name for himself with high-octane contributions in the shape of The Raid: Redemption, V/H/S/2 and The Raid 2 (with The Raid 3 in the works), for his fifth feature film, Welsh helmer Gareth Evans reverts to the early 1900s with this medium sized piece of Americana. Shot last March/April, Apostle is coined as a period revenge thriller.

With Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Bill Millner and Kristine Froseth, this is set in 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.

Release Date/Prediction: With Sundance possibly bypassing the pic, this Netflix title could pretty much land at any fest.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).