Dacre Montgomery, star of Netflix’s Stranger Things, is returning to the supernatural genre, bringing Vicky Krieps with him. Went Up the Hill, a supernatural thriller, will include them both. Deadline claims that the two stars will star in the New Zealand-set picture. In the film, Montgomery will portray Jack, a man who goes to New Zealand to attend the burial of his mother, who left him when he was a youngster. His mother’s spirit appears and takes over both he and her widow, Jill (Krieps), putting them in peril.
Samuel Van Grinsven, who will helm the movie, recently remarked on the cast: “Having Vicky and Dacre play such interesting and difficult roles is fantastic. It is a privilege to be working with these two fearless creators, whose work I appreciate, on this eerie tale.”
Australian actor Montgomery played troubled kid Billy Hargrove in seasons two and three of Netflix’s supernatural blockbuster Stranger Things, a character he repeated in the critically praised fourth season episode “Dear Billy” this year.
In addition to his role as the Red Ranger in the 2017 revival of Power Rangers, he also played Steve Binder in this year’s critically acclaimed biography of Elvis. Next, he’ll be seen in Spider & Jessie, with McKenna Grace. Luxemburg-born actor and model Vicky Krieps earned her big break in the 2016 film Phantom Thread, in which she played the resented muse of Daniel Day-obsessive Lewis’s fashion designer. She then starred in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Old, and the TV adaptation of Das Boot. She received Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard competition for portraying Empress Elizabeth of Austria in the film Corsage, which she also executive produced.
She also has future roles in Viggo Mortensen’s western The Dead Don’t Hurt and Martin Bourboulon’s The Three Musketeers movie. Van Grinsven directed his first feature film, the LGBT mystery thriller Sequin in a Blue Room, released in 2019. Van Grinsven, the film’s director, and Jory Anast, the film’s screenwriter, collaborated on the script for the Australia-New Zealand co-production Went Up the Hill. Samantha Jennings and Kristina Clayton of Causeway Films, together with Vicky Pope of POP Film, are producing this. The Babadook, a surprisingly successful horror film, and The Nightingale, a gripping historical thriller, are Causeway’s two most well-known works. Bankside Films is in charge of international sales and distribution. Pre-production for Went Up the Hill has begun.