A few months ago, IFC Midnight announced that they had acquired the distribution rights to Consecration, the latest movie from genre regular filmmaker Christopher Smith, whose credits include Creep, Severance, Triangle, Black Death, Detour, and The Banishing. Now IFC Midnight has revealed their release strategy for the film: Consecraction will be reaching theatres on February 10th, with a digital release to follow on March 3rd. At a later date, the movie will also be available to watch on the Shudder streaming service. Along with the release info comes the unveiling of the film’s trailer, which you can check out in the embed above.
Scripted by Smith and Laurie Cook, Consecration follows Grace as she goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what was behind the suspicious death of her brother, a priest. She is initially helped by Father Romero, but she soon comes to distrust the account of the church as she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.
Jena Malone (The Hunger Games) plays Grace, with Danny Huston (Wonder Woman) as Father Romero. Janet Suzman (Nicolas and Alexandra), Thoren Ferguson (The Midwich Cuckoos), and Will Keen (Operation Mincemeat) are also in the cast.
Co-writer Laurie Cook produced Consecration for Bigscope Films alongside Xavier Marchand of Moonriver Content and Jason Newmark of Newscope Films. AGC and Sherborne Capital provided the funding. AGC founder Stuart Ford served as an executive producer with Linda McDonough, and Miguel Palo. Zachary Garrett, Bigscope’s Ed Fraiman, and Adam Nagel are co-executive producers and Casey Herbert of Moonriver Content co-producer.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Smith said he was inspired to make Consecration because “I’m never more spooked out than if I walk into a church or a temple. I went into a synagogue recently and found the atmosphere in there so electrically-charged. I don’t feel that in old houses. I wanted to make a movie about religion but do it seriously.“
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