Mute Witness

Friday, September 6 - Saturday, September 14, 2024

SHE WON’T BE SILENCED.

Director Anthony Waller (The Piper, An American Werewolf in Paris) combines cat-and-mouse suspense with classic intrigue in Mute Witness, an updated take on the Hitchcockian thriller in which the only witness to a brutal crime can neither speak nor cry out in terror. Billy Hughes (Marina Sudina) is a mute special effects artist working on a low budget American slasher movie being shot in Russia.

Accidentally locked in the studio late one night, she stumbles upon two men shooting what appears to be a snuff film. Having borne witness to their victim’s final moments, Billy desperately flees – but this is only the start of a protracted night of terror, drawing her and her friends into a tangled web of intrigue, involving the KGB, the Moscow police… and a mysterious crime kingpin known as “The Reaper.”

Screening as part of our RED ROOMS themed midnight series It’s Murder!: Four Films

• Country UK, Russia, Germany
• Language English
• Year 1995
• Running Time 95 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor AGFA
• Director Anthony Waller
• Cast Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Oleg Yankovskiy, Igor Volkov
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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