Writer/director Edoardo Vitaletti’s religious horror film The Last Thing Mary Saw, which stars Isabelle Fuhrman (Escape Room: Tournament of Champions) and Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3), won’t be making its world premiere at the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival until August 15th, but the Shudder streaming service has already acquired the film’s distribution rights. Shudder will be releasing The Last Thing Mary Saw in North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand sometime in 2022.
Vitaletti’s feature debut, The Last Thing Mary Saw is
a period occult drama set in an isolated farmhouse in the winter of 1843, where a young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family’s matriarch. It soon becomes apparent that ageless forces are at play, from within and without.
If you want to know more, here’s a longer synopsis:
Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Stefanie Scott), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are seeing, speaking, and acting on God’s behalf, view the girls’ relationship as an abomination, to be dealt with as severely as possible. The couple attempt to carry on in secret, but someone is always watching, or listening, and the wages of perceived sin threaten to become death, with the tension only heightened by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger (Rory Culkin) and the revelation of forces other than the Lord at work.
Fuhrman and Scott are joined in the cast by Rory Culkin (Scream 4) and Judith Roberts (Dead Silence).
Following its Fantasia screening, The Last Thing Mary Saw will have its U.K. premiere at London’s Frightfest on August 28th.