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Allotment

Synopsis

A small, closely-knit allotment community on the fringes of London experience unsettling, life-changing events after a mysterious stranger enters their midst.
Aiden Salter is a budding nature writer living alone in a council block overlooking a small allotment on the edge of the city. A personality disorder keeps him shut up in his bedsit all day long, vicariously living through the lives of the plot-holders below who have formed a close-knit family of their own. The weekend Aiden enters their circle, police have earmarked the gardens for closure in three days following the disappearance of a local Ukrainian boy, and the grisly suicide of one of the plot-holders. Increasingly it appears Aiden himself, and Elsie Bierce, a controversial American publisher specialising in the occult, are at the heart of it all. On the eve of its imminent closure and the padlocking of its gates, 'Ourhaven' allotment, re-christened ‘Sourhaven’ by the local press after a glut of bad headlines, is about to unearth its diabolical secret.

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Year: 2025
Type of film: Features
Running time: 106 min
Director: Sean James Garland
Producer: Sean James Garland
Editor: Sean James Garland
Screenwriter: Sean James Garland
Director of Photography: Sean James Garland
Sound: Jim McKee
Composer: John Metcalfe
Principal cast: Matthew Brett, Kristina Yaneva, Tony Parkin, Canice Bannon, Maria Tecce, David Ellis
Additional Cast: Angelo Marcos, Hans Sures, Joshua Halligan, Marcus Halligan, Conor Halligan

Genre

Crime / Mystery Drama Horror

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Long Island Bridie Pictures

c/o Sean James Garland

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