Usually summer isn’t the time for ghost stories, but Greenwich Entertainment has other ideas. They’ve just released the first poster for their upcoming family ghost tale Went Up the Hill, starring a Stranger Things alum and hitting theaters next month.
Starring Dacre Montgomery alongside Vicky Krieps and Sarah Peirse, Went Up the Hill is written and directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, with producers Vicky Pope, Samantha Jennings, and Kristina Ceyton. The film’s synopsis is as follows:
Abandoned as a child, Jack travels to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother, Elizabeth. There, he meets her widow, Jill, and over the nights that follow, Elizabeth's spirit begins to possess them in turn. What starts as a search for closure soon unearths deeper wounds. Bound by grief and haunted by what remains, Jack and Jill must break free from Elizabeth’s grasp before she pushes them to the edge. Set against the deeply atmospheric backdrop of New Zealand’s South Island, WENT UP THE HILL is an intimate, modern ghost story that explores the legacy of loss and the struggle to let go.
The poster doesn’t give us much of an indication about the film’s tone — just a simple photo of Montgomery and Krieps staring out at the viewers from behind a pane of glass, their reflections warped to resemble their mother and wife. But their character names combined with the film’s title offer a creative play on a classic nursery rhyme, suggesting that the film will tackle plenty of themes of childhood, abandonment, and familial ties through the lens of its ghost story.
“In approaching Went Up the Hill, I was grappling with themes of control – the loss of it, both given and taken – and the regaining of it to shape one's future,” Vam Grinsven said in a statement. “In confronting the many faces of control, be it of the body or the mind, the film was born. A three-hander, told with two actors – a triangle of interdependent characters each seeking control via the act of giving it over entirely…Inspired by nostalgic memories of my childhood in New Zealand’s remote South Island, Went Up the Hill is an intimate, modern ghost story that dances in the tension between genres to explore the extremities of grief in our pursuit of letting go.”
Went Up the Hill hits theaters on August 15. Check out the new poster below:
