The Owners

The Owners (2020)

Respect your elders... or else.

A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

Date of release
2020-08-27
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (462)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director
Julius Berg

Casting

Interesting facts

The Owners is a 2020 horror thriller film adapted from the graphic novel Une nuit de pleine lune by Hermann Huppen and Yves H. Directed and co-written by Julius Berg in his feature film directorial debut, the film stars Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny and Andrew Ellis. The film is set in the 1990s and is about a retired married couple in rural England whose home is besieged by four young criminals. An international co-production of the United States, United Kingdom, and France, The Owners was released in the US on September 4, 2020, by RLJE Films.

Production

In February 2019, it was announced that Maisie Williams had been cast for the film. In May 2019, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham and Stacha Hicks joined the cast.

In May 2019, principal photography began and filming took place in an isolated Victorian mansion in Kent, near London.

Director and co-writer Julius Berg, speaking of the film's themes, stated that "in a way, it's a bit of an anti-capitalist movie. When you're poor you have less of a chance to survive."

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