BBC's Stag — Trailer

added: Fri, Feb 19th '16

BBC has released the trailer for the darkly comic horror mini-series "Stag," which hails from English director Jim Field Smith (She's Out of My League, Butter, The Wrong Mans) and British TV writer George Kay (The Hour, My Mad Fat Diary).

The three-part, three-hour series is centered around a weekend trip to the Scottish Highlands, in which an uptight school teacher (Jim Howick; Horrible Histories) is invited to go deer hunting with his future brother-in-law (Stephen Campbell Moore; The History Boys) and five of his friends. It's only later when they're at the camping site that the men realize a crazed killer is on the loose and has started to pick them off one-by-one.

The cast also includes JJ Feild (TURN: Washington's Spies), Pilou Asbaek (A Hijacking), Rufus Jones (Holy Flying Circus), Tim Key (Alan Partridge), Amit Shah (The Hundred-Foot Journey), Christiaan Van Vuuren (Soul Mates), with appearances by Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen) and James Cosmo (Braveheart).

"Stag" is set to air in the U.K. on BBC Two starting Saturday, February 27th.

synopsis:
Ian Telford (Jim Howick) is a 34 year-old secondary school teacher from Eastbourne who doesn't drink, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t eat meat, disapproves of blood sports and knows very few people, if any, who went to private school.

That's all about to change when he joins the stag weekend of his brother-in-law "Johnners" (Stephen Campbell Moore) and several of his charmless friends, as they embark on a deer hunting adventure in the remote Scottish Highlands organised by best man, Ledge.

However, it's not long before the hunters become the hunted. As the group is brutally eliminated, one ill-equipped, poorly-dressed loud-mouth at a time, their true personalities begin to emerge. Reputations are ruined, friendships are tested, and sordid secrets unearthed as they struggle to survive this stag weekend from hell.

directed by Jim Field Smith

starring Jim Howick, Stephen Campbell Moore, JJ Feild, Rufus Jones, Pilou Asbaek, Amit Shah, Tim Key, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Reece Shearsmith, James Cosmo.

release date February 27, 2016 (in the UK on BBC TWO)