Hallow Road
Hallow Road is a 2025 psychological thriller film directed by Babak Anvari and written by William Gillies. The film stars Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys as a married couple who attempt to help their daughter cover up the evidence of a car accident that she caused.
Plot
Paramedic Maddie and her husband Frank are jolted awake by a smoke alarm as their eighteen‑year‑old daughter Alice calls in panic: after storming off in Frank’s car, she has struck a girl on remote Hallow Road. While Maddie and Frank race to reach her, Alice claims she called an ambulance, and Maddie coaches her through CPR—until Alice, terrified, insists she has crushed the girl’s chest. Frank urges her to abandon the body and get back in the car.During the call, Alice admits she is high on MDMA, never returned to her boyfriend Jakob’s flat as her parents assumed, and never actually called emergency services. The family’s fraught argument reveals the source of their earlier fight: Alice’s pregnancy and her parents’ pressure to end it. Frank vows to take the blame when they arrive.
Alice then reports another car approaching. At Frank’s urging, she drags the body into the undergrowth—only to panic that the girl’s face is “changing.” A strange woman appears, claiming she and her husband are out driving and offering help. Her tone shifts from gentle to intrusive and threatening as she refuses to leave Alice alone.
When Alice tries to flee, Maddie and Frank hear the woman smash the quarter glass of the car. The woman insists the girl Alice hit is alive and with her husband, and pressures the family for explanations. Frank confesses he planned to take responsibility, which seems to satisfy her. Maddie, shaken, admits she recently quit her paramedic job after misdiagnosing a fatal pulmonary embolism. Alice decides she will own up to her actions.
When Maddie and Frank finally reach Hallow Road, Alice and the couple are gone. A body lies in the brush. Frank examines it and returns with the devastating claim that it is Alice. Maddie refuses to accept it and calls Alice’s phone—only for Alice to answer, sounding kidnapped. The woman taunts them, declaring that she and her husband “correct” girls like Alice and will do the same to her unborn child. The call ends as police block the road.
By morning, officers treat the corpse—apparently Alice—as the victim of a hit‑and‑run. Detectives conclude that Maddie and Frank’s belief they spoke to Alice afterward is a trauma‑induced delusion, leaving the couple silent and shattered.
Cast
- Rosamund Pike as Maddie
- Matthew Rhys as Frank
- Megan McDonnell as Alice
- Paul Tylak as an officer
- Stephen Jones as a detective