Modern Love (2006): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2006, Modern Love is a horror and mystery film directed by Alex Frayne, running about 110 minutes. “Happy happy, joy, joy, until someone gets hurt....” — that tagline sets the tone.

What it’s about. JOHN, his wife EMILY, and their small son EDWARD leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's inheritance - a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting. Nothing is what it seems, and JOHN's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre as he crosses paths with the unusual inhabitants of the area, some of whom he knows from a distant past. As his connections to the area are gradually revealed, we are shown a puzzle and a tapestry of our hero and his life before he moved away. To his wife's horror we witness a man who belongs to a long lineage of disaster and mishap and rural weirdness. As the realization sets in of what has happened, the specter of the next-in-line, his son EDWARD, becomes spookily evident.

Who’s in it. Modern Love stars Mark Constable as John, Victoria Hill as Emily, Will Traeger as Edward and Damian Woodards as Street Hobo.

Where to watch. In GB you can rent or buy it from Amazon Video. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Modern Love page.

If you liked it. Fans of Modern Love tend to enjoy Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Shining and Alien.