Dacre Montgomery (“Stranger Things”) stars alongside Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) in Went Up the Hill, a haunting ghost story that’s coming to theaters on August 15, 2025. Watch the trailer for Went Up the Hill, which features rave reviews from outlets including The Hollywood Reporter. They call it “one of the most startlingly original ghost stories in […]
Dacre Montgomery (“Stranger Things”) stars alongside Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) in Went Up the Hill, a haunting ghost story that’s coming to theaters on August 15, 2025.
Watch the trailer for Went Up the Hill, which features rave reviews from outlets including The Hollywood Reporter. They call it “one of the most startlingly original ghost stories in years.”
Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps star as strangers brought together by a family connection in this haunting tale of grief, possession and breaking free from the past.
“The film will chart how after being abandoned as a child, Jack (Montgomery) ventures to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother and there meets her grieving widow, Jill (Krieps). His search for answers becomes dangerous when his mother’s ghost returns to inhabit both Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other, and instigating a life-threatening nocturnal dance between the three of them.”
Samuel Van Grinsven directs from his script co-written with Jory Anast.
Deadline notes that the film is “being produced by Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton of Causeway Films with Vicky Pope of POP Film (Savage). Bankside Films has worked with Causeway on a number of projects including Talk To Me,You Won’t Be Alone, Of An Age and Cargo. Causeway’s additional credits include The Babadook and The Nightingale.”
