Coffin Rock: suspense on a budget

Rupert Glasson and David Lightfoot took the premise of what could have been a typical family drama and turned it into an effective thriller. They told Paul Hayes why they went down that path.

The new thriller from the first time writer/director Rupert Glasson, Coffin Rock, fits very comfortably into the genre film category. Set in a small coastal ‘anytown’, the story about a middle-aged couple struggling with possible infertility against the ticking of the biological clock, and the young drifter who takes an unhealthy obsession with the lady in question, mixes thriller and horror elements to the family drama.

“Family relationships are what I am really fascinated by,” Glasson told Encore.