Went Up the Hill

Went Up the Hill (2025)

Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each of their bodies, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.

Date of release
2025-08-15
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Director
Samuel Van Grinsven

Casting

Interesting facts

Went Up the Hill is a 2024 psychological drama film directed by Samuel Van Grinsven. The film stars Dacre Montgomery as Jack, a man returning to his native New Zealand to attend the funeral of his birth mother, from whom he was taken away and placed into foster care; he meets his mother's widow Jill for the first time, only for his mother to return in spirit form and inhabit both Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other.

Production

The film's casting was first announced in fall 2022, with the film shooting on location in New Zealand in 2023.

The film's closing theme song, "Jill", was written and performed by Krieps. According to Krieps, she has maintained a practice for a number of years of writing a song about each film character she played, as a way to process and "exorcise" her emotions about the role, but "Jill" marked the first time that the filmmaker had actually placed her song in the movie.

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