David Farr's (screenwriter of HANNA) feature film debut The Ones Below, is a dark, modern fairy tale in which the lives of two couples become fatally intertwined. 

Kate (Clémence Poésy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) live in the upstairs flat of a London house. Thirty-something, successful and affluent, they are expecting their first baby. All appears well on the surface though Kate harbours deep-rooted fears about her fitness to be a mother and her ability to love her child. 

One day, another couple, Jon (David Morrissey) and Theresa (Laura Birn), move into the empty apartment below. They are also expecting a baby and in stark contrast to Kate, Theresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. 

Pregnancy brings the women together in a blossoming friendship as Kate becomes entranced by Theresa’s unquestioning celebration of her family-to-be. Everything changes one night at a dinner party in Kate and Justin’s flat. Kate begins to sense that all is not as it seems with the couple below. Then a tragic accident throws the couples into a nightmare and a reign of psychological terror begins.

Directed by David Farr

87 minutes

★★★★
‘A VERY STYLISH PIECE OF WORK FROM FARR’

The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw

★★★★
‘ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE FIRST CINEMATIC FEATURE... SUPERBLY ACTED’ 

The Daily Mail - Brian Viner
 

★★★★
‘A SUPERB THRILLER’

The Times - Kate Muir

★★★★
‘A CHILLY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOUNG MUMS RUSH TO CHECK THEIR BABY MONITORS’ 

The Daily Mirror - David Edwards

★★★★
‘A TAUT, EXPERTLY EXECUTED CHILLER’

The Daily Express - Allan Hunter

★★★
‘A CREEPY GENRE EXERCISE BY A CRAFTSMAN FINDING HIS GROOVE’ 

The Telegraph - Patrick Smith

★★★
‘THE PERFORMANCES ARE STRIKING, ESPECIALLY THAT OF POESY’ 

The Independent - Geoffrey Macnab

★★★
‘SMART THRILLER’ 

Daily Star - Andy Lea

'The other-worldly score heightens expectations of a film that will unsettle in the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby and mostly, modestly The Ones Below doesn’t disappoint'

The Screen Daily review