Mar 20, 2026 6:29am PT

‘The Peril at Pincer Point’ Review: A Sound Designer Chases the Waves in a Handsome Feat of Shoestring Surrealism

Brazenly ludicrous but intriguing, this beautifully crafted oddity from British writer-directors Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine has niche midnight-movie potential.

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In “The Peril at Pincer Point,” an eager young sound designer is willing to go fully off the deep end in the name of cinematic ingenuity — and in their impressively bananas first feature as a duo, one suspects writer-directors Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine may have done the same. Either a satire or a celebration of independent filmmaking at its most impractically intrepid, this microbudget curio wears a hotchpotch of influences on its stained, frayed sleeve — from Powell and Pressburger to grimy folk horror to the indie postmodernism of Mark Jenkin and Peter Strickland — but still maintains its own perverse, peculiar voice.

'The Peril at Pincer Point' Review: A Sound Designer Chases the Waves in a Handsome Feat of Shoestring Surrealism