The Rural Slasher

The Rural Slasher is a 2017 British slasher film written and directed by Ifan Barber, adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by LR Witt, which in turn was based on the 1990 unsolved Wintergreen Murders. It is the first instalment in The Rural Slasher franchise.

It stars Lily James, Dan Stevens, David Thewlis, Rupert Grint, Aneurin Bernard, Karen Gillan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gemma Chan, Maisie Williams and Helen McCrory with a cameo by McCrory's husband, Damien Lewis.

It follows a group of festival-goers discovering that the festival they believe they were attending has been cancelled but deciding to stay anyway, despite warnings from a local woman that the forest is haunted by a murdered bride who murders anyone who enters her territory.

The Rural Slasher was well received by critics, with some saying it revitalised the British horror movie industry.

Plot
Arriving early for a festival in Haldersfield, Marcus (Damien Lewis) finds himself alone in the middle of the apparent destination, Halderfield Woods. Roaming alone, Marcus is suddenly mauled and attacked by an unknown assailant, leaving him to die and never be found.

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