Them That Follow

Them That Follow (2019)

We all have our sins.

A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara’s wedding to a devoted follower looms, she must decide whether or not to trust the steely matriarch of their community, Hope, with her heart and life at stake.

Date of release
2019-08-02
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (95)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage

Casting

Interesting facts

Them That Follow is a 2019 American mystery horror drama film written and directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Englert, Jim Gaffigan, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann, and Lewis Pullman. Set in a remote Pentecostal community in Appalachia, it follows Mara Childs (Englert), a woman who, while being courted for marriage by parishioner Garret (Pullman), discovers she is pregnant with the child of her former lover Augie Slaughter (Mann), forcing her to keep both the affair and her pregnancy a secret from her pastor father Lemuel (Goggins), her friend Dilly Picket (Dever), and Augie's parents Hope (Colm…

Production

In August 2017, it was announced Olivia Colman, Alice Englert, and Thomas Mann had joined the cast of the film, with Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage directing from a screenplay they wrote. Gerard Butler, Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant, Danielle Robinson, served as producers on the film, under their Amasia Entertainment and G-Base banners, respectively.

Principal photography began in Youngstown, Ohio, on October 24, 2017, and concluded on November 20.

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