Overview

• Sophie Turner and Kit Harington described playing romantic partners in The Dreadful as “really weird” in interviews following their long-standing sibling roles on Game of Thrones.
• Director Natasha Kermani adapts the classic Japanese horror Onibaba into a British Gothic tale set during the Wars of the Roses.
• Turner expands her career by both leading the cast as Anne and producing alongside Luke Daniels and Patrick Muldoon.
• Turner personally lobbied for Harington’s casting as Jago, drawing on their off-screen rapport to heighten the film’s unsettling dynamic.
• The Dreadful entered post-production in January and is slated for UK distribution by True Brit Entertainment, with no release date announced.