Where Vaughn is quiet and reserved, Martin McCann's Marcus is loud, brash and cocky. Torn between a need to tell the truth and a desire to be there for his growing family, he allows himself to be dragged further and further into an impossible situation by his friend.

Jack Lowden is fast becoming one of Scotland's finest talents ( Dunkirk, England Is Mine) and completely convinces as a young man whose life as he knows it is suddenly over with the click of a trigger.

Yet the note perfect script would all be for nothing if not they had not assembled a talented group of actors to deliver the goods and they are uniformly terrific. Palmer understands the notion of 'best laid plans' and slowly dials up the tension and naturalistically placing obstacles in the way of the duo's success and escape. Would you have acted any differently? We like to think we would but. It dares to ask the question of 'what would you do?' in a situation like that. Every single decision or choice that the two lead characters make comes from an honest and believable place from where they are at that time. What can let a horror or thriller down is when it strays too far from believability but this is not an issue here. Only the peace of the misty morning is shattered by a tragic accident that will set the friends down a road from which there may be no return. It is clear that his love of horror and film has given him the tools to craft a tense and thrilling tale.Ĭhildhood friends Vaughn (Jack Lowden) and Marcus (Martin McCann) head up to the remote Scottish highlands on a hunting trip before Vaughn settles down with his fiancee and baby that is on the way.Īfter a night of heavy drinking with the locals, ruffling a few feathers along the way, the pals set out to stalk deer in the woods. Matt has experience directing short films but many know him as the programmer and curator of All Night Horror Madness, an annual celebration of horror movies that takes place at The Cameo.

Calibre is the debut feature film from writer/director Matt Palmer.

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