'Fingernails' To Haunt Apple TV+ For Halloween
As the Venice International Film Festival winds down across the pond, the Toronto International Film Festival opens to the north. Known as TIFF, the festival is expected to debut some highly anticipated U.K. productions, including One Life, a clear Oscar bait contender biopic of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, famous for smuggling Jewish children from Europe and starring Anthony Hopkins (King Lear) and Johnny Flynn (Emma). However, streaming producers are also bringing awards contenders, including Apple TV+, which will debut the Jessie Buckley-Riz Ahmed science fiction romance Fingernails.
The Irish-born Buckley and Biritsh-born Ahmed are previous Oscar nominees, Buckley for The Lost Daughter and Ahmed for The Sound of Metal. The director, Christos Nikou, is also an awards circuit favorite. However, the film's plot is just creepy enough that it's landing a spooky season-timed release, with the film hitting theaters for Halloween weekend and streaming for subscribers a week later.
Described as "set in an uncanny future — or perhaps a slightly alternate present where cellphone technology is nowhere to be found," it features a couple who have been certified as "True Love" only to find that perhaps their hearts have other ideas. TIFF describes the film as "a surreal allegory commenting on our desire for certainty and our reliance on technology."
