The film was nine years in the making, and began filming in November 2016. Vaughn gets up and goes to comfort his crying child. He says he's fine, despite clearly being far from it, and returns the question. Months later, Vaughan's fiancée turns on the bedside light to find him awake, sitting in a chair in the dark. Before Vaughn's fiancée arrives, Logan goes over the cover story with Vaughn, instructing him to tell the police that Marcus drove north and his relatives disappeared.
Eventually, at gunpoint, he kills Marcus. Vaughn initially refuses, even after being reminded of his fiancée and unborn child, and breaks down in tears. The next morning, Logan gives Vaughn an ultimatum: he must either kill Marcus, or Brian will kill them both. As Brian moves to kill Vaughn, they hear the group has caught Marcus. Brian objects, claiming there is insufficient evidence and Vaughn will change his story to protect himself. Brian wants to kill them but Logan, realizing their deaths would be punished, insists on involving the police instead. Logan and Brian take Vaughn to a farm, where he confesses. Brian savagely beats Vaughn before being pulled off by Logan the rest pursue Marcus. As the group closes in, Marcus leaves Vaughn. Fleeing on foot, Vaughn stumbles and is injured by the dog, which Marcus stabs to death. While the group digs them up, Marcus and Vaughn attempt to flee, but their fuel tank is ruptured by a bullet from Brian. Logan asks them to help with the search, which they accept for fear of arousing suspicion. Al's suspicions are raised when Marcus, upon returning, asks about "them" despite having only heard that Logan's nephew was missing. While Marcus is in the toilet, Vaughn speaks to Al and Iona and realizes the deceased were Logan's nephew and brother-in-law. On Logan's orders, Brian offers an aggressive and insincere apology, while complaining that the locals are beholden to "city twats" because they might bring in money.
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They return to the pub to hire a taxi, but find the driver drunk. At the garage, the mechanic tells Marcus the repairs will take a day. The next day, their departure is thwarted when Brian, another of Logan's brothers, slashes their tires and attacks Marcus for sleeping with Kara and giving her cocaine. They return just before dawn but are spotted by the B&B owner's young son. Marcus recovers the bullets, using a knife to dig Vaughn's bullet out of the boy's skull, over Vaughn's objections. They return to the village and are invited to dinner by Logan and his cousin Al Logan asks if Marcus can help him find investors who might revitalise the community. However, Marcus is told by a petrol station owner that Logan said no other hunters are around and convinces a traumatised Vaughn they can only protect themselves by returning after nightfall and burying the bodies. Marcus hides the bodies and they drive off, hoping to claim that they were hunting in another area. Vaughn wants to tell the police about the incident but Marcus convinces him they will be arrested as murderers. The boy's father arrives and, in a fit of grief, picks up Vaughn's gun and points it at him but Marcus shoots the man. On the hunt, the pair happen upon a deer in a clearing, and Vaughn aims at a doe’s head but it suddenly turns, causing Vaughn to shoot and kill a boy, unseen behind the deer. Vaughn realises he has forgotten ammunition for his rifle, so Marcus lets him borrow one of his guns, despite this violating the strict firearm laws. On the way, Vaughn deduces Marcus has used cocaine and chastises him. Vaughn and Iona nearly kiss but Vaughn mentions his pregnant fiancée, so they have another drink instead.Įarly next morning, Marcus rouses a hungover Vaughn for their hunt. After dancing and drinking, Marcus leaves with Kara, despite being warned to stay away. They spend the evening at a village pub, where they meet Logan, a community leader who bemoans the village's weak economy and two young women, Kara and Iona. Plot Īn aggressive Edinburgh businessman, Marcus, takes his boarding-school friend, Vaughn, whose fiancée is newly pregnant, on a weekend hunting in the Scottish Highlands. The film is set in Scotland and concerns incidents on a hunting trip to the remote Scottish Highlands, and stars Jack Lowden and Martin McCann. It also had a limited release in select Curzon Cinemas in the UK from 21 October to 16 November 2018. After a debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, it was released on 29 June 2018 on Netflix. Calibre is a 2018 British thriller film written and directed by Matt Palmer.
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