A Haunting in Cawdor (2015): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2015, A Haunting in Cawdor is a thriller and horror film directed by Phil Wurtzel, running about 100 minutes.

What it’s about. In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.

Who’s in it. A Haunting in Cawdor stars Shelby Young as Vivian Miller, Cary Elwes as Lawrence O'Neill, Michael Welch as Roddy and Alexandria DeBerry as Jeanette Wells, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 4.3/10, A Haunting in Cawdor has proved divisive with audiences.

Where to watch. In US you can rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and YouTube. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch A Haunting in Cawdor page.

If you liked it. Fans of A Haunting in Cawdor tend to enjoy The Dark Knight, Pulp Fiction, Parasite and Fight Club.