The channel behind the Kevin James and Lulu Wilson-starrer home invasion movie Becky, Quiver Distribution, is back again. This time it has arrived with a brand new action-packed gory thriller.
The Retreat has been described as a Lesbian slasher that knows how to put up a fight.
What’s it about?
The film is being directed by Pat Mills (Don’t Talk to Irene, 2017). Tommie-Amber Pirie’s Renee and Sarah Allen’s Valerie are a couple who are at a crossroad in their relationship. They leave the city to spend their weekend at a distant cabin with their friends. However, on their arrival, their friends are nowhere to be found. The girls stumble over their relationship troubles and are seen spending time together when things start going south. They realise that they are being watched over only to discover that a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them are hunting them down.
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What’s new in the trailer?
We see the girls getting captured and being coerced by the militants into doing their bidding. The girls have to fight for their life to save themselves, even if it means that they have to kill.
Written by Alyson Richards, the movie will be available in theatres on May 21st with Digital HD and VOD.
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Themes
The writer wrote the screenplay to demonstrate how she has been feeling and states that people will fight back. She used her creativity as a cathartic way to deal with anger.
Director Mills stated that feeling out of place due to being different as a queer person is an unsafe feeling that everyone from the LGBTQIA+ community relates to and how the fearfulness gets embedded into their personalities by becoming a part of them.
The Retreat is a film about everyone’s worst fear of being targeted for their self expression.
What initially begins as a cabin-in-the-woods movie progresses into one about the need to survive. Extremist subcultures boiling to the surface is a theme explored in the film which is more relevant now than ever before.