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The Latent Image

Synopsis

Thriller writer Ben, struggling for inspiration, retreats to an isolated rural cabin to start on his latest novel and to escape the growing tension with his boyfriend Jamie. Working late into the night, he wakes to find a wounded man in the cabin, claiming to be a hunter whose car had broken down nearby. Intrigued and attracted to the mysterious and handsome intruder, Ben decides to secretly use him as inspiration as the antagonist for his new book: a savage murder believed to have taken place in the very cabin he has rented. As the man begins to help him enact increasingly dangerous and detailed scenarios for the story’s captive protagonist, Ben becomes aroused by the prospects, but finds himself rebuffed by a homophobic slur. Searching the man’s car, he uncovers stolen property belonging to several other young men hinting he may be a serial killer, a perfect twist for Ben’s novel. Discovering his own car sabotaged, and unable to escape, Ben enters a lethal game of cat and mouse. But it’s only when the fate of Ben’s boyfriend Jamie is revealed that Ben’s dark, erotic, fantasy becomes a stark, inescapable, reality.
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Details

Year
2022
Type of project
Features
Running time
83 min
Format
Digital 2.39:1
Director
Alexander McGregor Birrell
Producer
Cédric Andries
Editor
Lisa Rustage
Screenwriter
Alexander McGregor Birrell
Director of Photography
Michael Elias Thomas
Production Designer
Brendan Haley
Sound
Waqar Shah
Composer
Alex Gregson, Jack Hughes
Principal cast
Joshua Tonks, Jay Clift, William Tippery

Genre

Action LGBTQIA+

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Latent Image Ltd

3b Kildonan Road,
Liverpool,
Merseyside
L17 0BU

Sales Company

7&7 Producers Sales Service Ltd

122 Walton Street,
London
SW3 2JJ

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