It really helps.ĭeliverance was a huge influence on the film and I love that movie, but the one thing about Deliverance is that, in it, things are very heavily stacked in favour of the city folk who go out into the middle of nowhere. Having somebody like Jack definitely… in fact, I’ve shown clips to people when we were editing the film, I showed a short scene to a few people, like the bar scene, and people were immediately like, “I’m rooting for the blonde guy”, just because he’s got that kind of movie star charisma. And so I knew that the actor who played Vaughn, as well as being a really good actor to handle some of the more emotionally intense stuff, was also gonna have to be super charismatic. It was tricky ground because the worry with that is you have to be very careful that the audience are rooted in with your protagonists. Could you tell me about writing and directing the performances for that balance? Perhaps my favourite thing about the film is that everyone’s actions are understandable. We talk to about the influence of Deliverance and Wake in Fright, discussions of ‘elevated genre’, rising star Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), and the benefits of Netflix distributing the film. (You can read our review of the movie here.)Īhead of its global launch on Netflix this weekend, we spoke to Palmer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where the movie premiered, before winning the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film – the first Netflix Original to win this prestigious prize. The debut feature from writer-director Matt Palmer, the Scottish Highlands-based thriller stars Jack Lowden and Martin McCann, and is one of the most scarily tense films – that’s not explicitly a horror movie – that we’ve seen for quite some time. If Calibre’s plot of two life-long friends fighting for their lives in an isolated country setting after a hunting trip gone wrong might seem a little familiar, the nuances to how the plot escalates are anything but.
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