Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19742009

Name: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Genre: Psychological, Gothic, Survival
Released: 2009-11-11
Rating: 7.4

“An epic tale of murder, corruption and obsession.”

Directed by Julian Jarrold

7.4

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 6.9Rotten Tomatoes 100%TMDB 6.7

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#4·Top Horror Movies of 2009 #13·Top Horror Movies of the 2000s

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Year

2009

Runtime

106 min

Box Office

Budget

$9,000,000

Domestic

$151,644

🏆 Won 3 BAFTA 5 wins & 10 nominations total

The premise

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

Horror Vault's take

Set against the grey, rain-soaked landscape of 1970s Yorkshire, this grim neo-noir follows rookie journalist Eddie Dunford as he pulls on a thread that powerful, dangerous men desperately want left alone. A string of missing children draws him into a labyrinth of police corruption, intimidation, and buried secrets that threatens to consume him entirely. Equal parts crime thriller and horror of the human kind, it builds its dread not through the supernatural but through the suffocating reality of institutionalised evil. Andrew Garfield anchors a formidable ensemble in what is as much a portrait of a corrupt era as it is a detective story.

Content: Police Brutality, Violence Against Children (Implied), Depictions Of Institutional Abuse, Strong Language, Scenes Of Intimidation And Coercion