Following
The First Omen
and
Immaculate, the latest slice of "nunsploitation" horror comes courtesy of
co-directors Nathan Shepka and Andy Crane's
The Baby in the Basket. Set during WWII, the film sees the nuns of a remote Scottish island
convent take in a baby that mysteriously washes up on the island's shore.
Soon after the island becomes plagued by sinister events.
Written by Tom Jolliffe, the film stars Amber Doig-Thorne, Michaela Longden, Elle O'Hara, Lisa Riesner, Nathan
Shepka, Maryam d'Abo, Paul Barber
and Annabelle Lanyon.
The Baby in the Basket is on UK/ROI VOD from February
17th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
It’s 1944 and World War Two rages on. The sisters of St. Augustine’s, a convent on a remote Scottish island, are preparing for an incoming storm. One night a cloaked figure leaves a baby in a basket and disappears, never to be seen again.
The nuns take in the boy, and agree to look after him until the storm passes when they will take the child to the mainland for permanent care. However, after a night under their watch, unsettling things begin to happen with the newest addition to the convent. Sister Agnes (Amber Doig-Thorne) suspects the child is the spawn of Satan, causing her to be locked away for fear that she's been driven mad by the isolation.
But increasingly strange occurrences lead the sisters to question their faith and everything they believe, they wonder has Sister Agnes fallen victim to the desolation of the remote island setting or was there really weight in her suspicions?
