Full UK Trailer for Luna Carmoon’s Odd Psychological Thriller ‘Hoard’
by Alex Billington
March 28, 2024
Source: YouTube
“You’re a funny little biscuit.” Vertigo Releasing has debuted the full official UK trailer for Hoard, an indie film creation from newcomer writer / director Luna Carmoon, making her feature directorial debut. This premiered in the Critics Week sidebar at the 2023 Venice Film Festival last year, with stops at the Athens and London Film Festivals. Not to be confused with the 2018 horror movie The Hoard, or any other horror films. In a fearlessly strange and intense psychological drama a troubled teenager forms an obsessive bond with a mysterious young man at her foster home. Starring Saura Lightfoot Leon as Maria, with Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach, and Samantha Spiro. It’s hard to describe this very strange film, which is exceptionally odd and icky at times. Most reviews at festivals last year were positive, saying: “this is unfiltered filmmaking that indulges every storytelling whim, however uncomfortable it might turn out to be.” This trailer plays like it is a horror film, though it’s a bit more sentimental and bizarre than that.
Here’s the official UK trailer (+ poster) for Luna Carmoon’s Hoard, direct from Vertigo’s YouTube:
“It’s sticky.” 1984: There’s a landfill in our living room. Mother and Maria’s world feels like sparkles down spines, Christmas is every day in their nidus of love. 1994: He handed her to me, its weight would come in waves. Maria’s last day of school. As she arrives home, at the top stairs, waiting, are two bare feet. A tall odd man, a stranger who has a familiar scent of trauma, a childhood pain, a gemini of knowing stings – Michael. Hoard is written and directed by the British filmmaker Luna Carmoon, now making her feature directorial debut after a few other short films previously. It’s produced by Loran Dunn, Helen Simmons, & Andrew Starke. This initially premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival in the Settimana Internazionale della Critica sidebar. Vertigo Releasing opens Luna Carmoon’s Hoard film in cinemas in the UK + Ireland starting on May 17th, 2024 coming soon. No US release date has been set yet – stay tuned. Who’s curious?