"Oh, Anna... you are our greatest success." Dark Sky Films has revealed the official trailer for a mystery thriller called
Woken, an Irish production that's the feature directorial debut of director Alan Friel. This is another film that originally premiered a few years ago – back at the 2023 Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, and 2024 Dublin Film Festival – finally getting released this year. A woman who wakes up from an accident with no memory of who she is, and the realisation that the human race is close to extinction. Oh wait, okay? What is really going on? The film stars
Erin Kellyman as Anna, with
Maxine Peake,
Ivanno Jeremiah,
Corrado Invernizzi, and
Peter McDonald. Anna is being nursed back to health by Helen and Peter on a remote island in the North Sea after waking up with no memory, pregnant, and in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. This looks a bit like a more horror take on
Children of Men, obviously something is going on with his baby being the only one that's still growing. This looks intriguing enough, might end up worth watching. //
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