The recent folk-horror revival continues with
The Last Thing Mary Saw, the feature debut of writer/director Edoardo Vitaletti.
Set in 19th century New York, the film stars Stefanie Scott as a
young woman in a secret relationship with her family's maid (Isabelle Fuhrman). When their romance is discovered, the family matriarch takes measures
to punish them.
The Last Thing Mary Saw is on Shudder from January
20th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
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 greater forces at work.
