Four days out from the US and UK release of The Baby in the Basket (which The Guardian called “low-budget nun fun” in its review this week), the folks over at Rapid Trailers have debuted a first clip from our gothic horror feature film.
Entitled ‘Baptised By Blood’, the clip sees Maryam d’Abo’s Mother Superior and Michaela Longden and Elle O’Hara’s Sisters Eleanor and Valerine holding a Christening for the eponymous baby; watch the clip below, and if you’d like to try and get your hands on an exclusive signed cast poster, head on over to our free Patreon here…
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?
SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for The Baby in the Basket
The Baby in the Basket is set for release in the UK/US on Monday, February 17th 2025 and features a cast that includes stars Amber Doig-Thorne (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey), Michaela Longden (How to Kill Monsters), Elle O’Hara (Cara), Lisa Riesner (No Dogs Allowed), Nathan Shepka (When Darkness Falls), Annabelle Lanyon (Legend), Maryam d’Abo (The Living Daylights) and Paul Barber (The Full Monty).
