Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal star in Andrew Haigh’s follow-up to The North Water, a superb and unsettling adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s Strangers.

As the students of New England prep school Barton Academy excitedly depart for the winter holidays, a ragtag bunch with nowhere to go are forced to stay behind.

In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) situates the viewer at the centre of frighteningly familiar banality.