The Peril at Pincer Point
You are invited to set sail for the most mysterious and wonderfully weird movie destination of the year. The feature debut of UK short filmmakers Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine stars a terrific Jack Redmayne as Jim, an eager-beaver London audio technician. His mission is to capture the sounds of Pincer Point, an eerie island where egomaniac director P.W. Griffin has filmed his latest creature feature. Oddballs with tales of ghost ships and stolen souls abound as Jim’s task turns to obsession and he becomes enmeshed in secrets, mysteries and spooky goings-on. The howling winds of B-movie horrors and the stormy gusts of experimental cinema fill the sails of this visually stunning flight of absurdist fancy.
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Jake Kuhn is a writer, producer, director, and recent alumnus of the National Film and Television School, where he directed the Python-esque medieval farce HAND TO GOD. A manic screenwriter and lover of all cinema, Jake directed his first feature with Noah Stratton-Twine: THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT, an improvised, Corman-inspired crustaceous comedy that won the NEON AUTEUR AWARD FOR UNCOMPROMISING VISIONARY at SXSW 2026. He is next set to produce THE PRESENT TIMES for Noah Stratton-Twine, alongside several other feature-length projects for him to both write and direct independently.
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