Ahead of its world premiere as the opening film of FrightFest next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for Broken Bird director Joanne Mitchell’s adaptation of the award-winning short Sybil.
The gothic horror follows Sybil (Rebecca Calder), a lonely woman working at an undertakers who seeks solace in her work as she feels reality slipping away from her.
Joining Calder in the cast are James Fleet, Jay Taylor, and Sacharissa Claxton. Watch the trailer below…
This rich, disturbing tale steps into the life and mind of Sybil Chamberlain. Sybil is a quiet, creative soul. Her hobbies are taxidermy and poetry. She works in a funeral parlor with the deceased. She likes dead people. They understand her.
At just ten years old, she experienced trauma in a tragic accident which took away the family she adored. Now, an aching loneliness prevails in a void which she seeks to fill. But poetry and a vivid imagination provide an escape from the harsh realities of a lonely life.
Reality and reason are slipping away from Sybil and her ‘dark desires’ become more and more insatiable. Her fascination with the dead takes a dark and strange twist. And in a horrific climax of gothic proportions, she finds her own kind of happiness and contentment with the people she keeps as company – dead people.
Broken Bird arrives in cinemas on August 30th.
