You can get away, but you can never escape.
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and overwhelming.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Elizabeth OlsenMartha
- Sarah PaulsonLucy
- Hugh DancyTed
- John HawkesPatrick
- Brady CorbetWatts
- Louisa KrauseZoe
- Christopher AbbottMax
- Maria DizziaKatie
- Julia GarnerSarah
- Adam David ThompsonBartender
Crew
- Sean DurkinDirector
- Sean DurkinWriter
- Jody Lee LipesDirector of Photography
- Danny BensiOriginal Music Composer
- Saunder JurriaansOriginal Music Composer
- Zachary Stuart-PontierEditor
- Chris MaybachProducer
- Patrick CunninghamProducer
- Antonio CamposProducer
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