Get Away

Local title
Kaome siit
Director
Steffen Haars
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Festival
HÕFF 2025
Programme
HÕFF Main Programme
Genre
comedy, horror
Subject
familial relationships, violence, humour

A family’s vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn.

British couple Richard (Nick Frost) and Susan (Aisling Bea) have booked a family holiday on the remote Swedish island of Svalta. Their kids are unimpressed and so are the mainlanders, who warn that no good will come of their trip to the forbidding island. Undeterred, they set off, only to be welcomed by a community more than a little irritated by their presence. As feelings towards the tourists take a turn for the worse, the family gradually suspects that their presence is a calculated move, designed to draw them into an ancient tradition – one that they really aren’t going to like.

Filmmaker Steffen Haars previously collaborated with Nick Frost on the sit-com send-up “Krazy House”. Frost is also the writer on “Get Away” and as one of the team behind “Shaun of the Dead” he brings the right amount of knowingness to a film that initially plays amiably with genre conventions. He’s a very modern patriarch – a father who is the butt of his family’s jokes and rarely taken too seriously, but who learns to step up when the going gets rough. And it does, as Haars ratchets up the horror and the film’s title takes on a whole new meaning.

Director
Steffen Haars
Screenwriter
Nick Frost
Cast
Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Jouko Ahola, Eero Milonoff, Ville Virtanen, Maisie Ayres
Producer
Maxime Cottray, Nick Frost, John Hegeman, Miles Ketley, Kim Lee, Nick Spicer, Aram Tertzakian
Cinematographer
Joris Kerbosch
Production Design
Pirjo Rossi
Editing
Brian Ent
Music
Mike Truman, Charlotte Truman
Production
Inland Film Company Oy, Resolute Films & Entertainment, Wayward Entertainment, XYZ Films
Runtime
Language
English
Subtitles
Estonian
Other festivals
Fantastic Fest, Rotterdam
Director
Steffen Haars
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