Shelley (2016)
Inside, an evil grows.
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
- Date of release
- 2016-02-14
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (137)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Director
- Ali Abbasi
Casting
- Ellen Dorrit Petersen — Louise
- Cosmina Stratan — Elena
- Peter Christoffersen — Kasper
- Björn Andrésen — Leo
- Marianne Mortensen — Isabella
- Marlon Kindberg Bach — Sigurd
- Kenneth M. Christensen — Simon
- Patricia Schumann — Nanna
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Robert Award for Best Song
Shelley is a 2016 Danish drama horror film directed and co-written by Ali Abbasi and stars Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Peter Christoffersen as a couple who, faced with the inability to bear children, arrange for their Romanian maid to be a surrogate mother, soon leading to increasingly sinister events as the due date approaches. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
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