Synopsis
When a deadly secret rots the mind of a grieving widower, the decision to work alone on a deserted island morphs into a terrifying race to save his sanity and his life.
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Cast
- Tom HughesEric Black
- Kate DickieFisher
- Gaia WeissRachel Black
- Greta ScacchiGlenys Black
- Jamie Marie LearyDI Carol Thomas
- Gordon BrownPolice
- Richard PaynePriest
- Wayne BurtonMourner
- Steve WilsonMourner
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
With Shepherd, the Welsh writer and director Russell Owen shows us how to accrue a great deal of atmosphere with very little fuss. - 60
Los Angeles Times
While the plot here is thin (and slow-paced, and oppressively grim), Owen has a remarkable facility for generating atmosphere. He’s made a film where one man’s internal strife has been effectively externalized as an inescapable, picturesque purgatory. - 58
The Film Stage
Ratcheting up the conflict and confusion becomes counter-intuitive, the escalation of violence and brutality arriving without clear motive. I can’t even decide for myself what’s happening—there’s nothing but smoke to grab. Owen stripped away the film’s own agency. - 50
Polygon
Shepherd is more of a bandwagon-jumping exercise in arthouse horror films about grief than a truly bone-chilling example of one.
