1922 is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Zak Hilditch for Netflix, based on the 2010 Stephen King novella of the same title. It stars Thomas Jane, Molly Parker and Dylan Schmid. Mike Patton, of rock band Faith No More, composed the soundtrack score.
The film will premiere on Netflix on October 20, 2017. According to Movieweb, Stephen King has seen a rough cut of the movie and felt it was “super creepy” and that it “won’t leave his mind.”
Wilfred James, a farmer in Nebraska, owns farmland that have been in his family for generations. His wife Arlette owns adjoining land willed to her by her father. Arlette wants to move to Omaha. She seeks to sell her land to a livestock company for use as a pig farm and slaughterhouse. If she does so, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. Wilfred resorts to manipulating his teenaged son, Henry, into helping him murder his own mother.
As part of their plot, Wilfred and a reluctant Henry get Arlette drunk. Arlette proceeds to make crude remarks about Henry’s girlfriend, Shannon, which angers the boy enough to commit to Wilfred’s plot. After taking Arlette to bed, Wilfred brutally slashes her throat with a butcher knife. Wilfred and Henry then dump the body in a well. Later, as Wilfred dumps his blood-soaked mattress into the well with Arlette, he notices that her body has become infested with rats.
Wilfred decides to fill in the well to hide the body, so purposefully has one of his aged cows fall in the well to provide a cover story for filling it in. Wilfred and Henry fill the well, but a rat crawls out of the soil. Henry kills it, but is convinced that Arlette is now haunting them…
Main cast:
Thomas Jane (The Mist), Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid, Kaitlyn Bernard, Brian d’Arcy James, and Neal McDonough.
IMDb | Image credits: Bloody Disgusting
