New Image For The Beguiled Appear Online

 

The Beguiled will see Sofia Coppolla taking the plunge into gothic horror. The film is an adaption of the novel The Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan and was already made for the screen in 1971 courtesy of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood.

Set in rural Mississippi during the civil war, the story takes place in an isolated all girls boarding school. Their peace is broken by the arrival of an injured soldier, his innate manliness quickly sending the women into a downward spiral of sexual jealousy and extreme violence.

The Beguiled is set to hit theatres on June 23rd, slap bang in the middle of a busy summer of muscled men punching each other through buildings and things loudly going boom. I sincerely hope this promising looking slice of southern gothic doesn’t get lost in the blockbuster melee.