‘Heretic’: Cornish Folk Horror Starring ‘The Witcher’ Breakout Emma Appleton Wraps Production, First Look Revealed
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Emma Appleton (The Witcher, Everything I Know About Love) is among the leading cast of the indie British folk horror Heretic, the debut feature from filmmaker Dean Puckett, which has just wrapped production on the southwest coast of England.
Appleton leads the cast, which is rounded out by Jodhi May, Lewis Gribben, Barney Harris, Oliver Maltman, James Swanton, and Toby Stephens.
The film is produced by Rebecca Wolff of Grasp the Nettle Films and Jude Goldrei of Lunar Lander Films. Logline reads: When Magpie’s husband dies in mysterious circumstances, a brutal witch-hunt threatens to tear apart an isolated religious community.
Production took place on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor, an expansive rocky moorland. The Cornish region has a long and rich history of horror filmmaking.
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