During a night at the local pub that leaves them worse for wear, they meet the community leader Logan (Curran). It’s got all the trappings of an odd-couple road movie, like a Scottish Sideways but, instead, it ends up more like a tartan twist on Deliverance. Staying in a remote village, their aims are simple: drink some beer, ear some steak, maybe shag some women, and hunt some deer, before returning to civilisation and settling down into boring adulthood. The mild-mannered, soon-to-be husband and dad, Vaughn (Lowden) leaves the city for a jaunt up north with his childhood friend Marcus (McCann): a hard-talking, coke-snorting businessman. Writer/ director Mark Palmer’s debut feature is about two men going for the former and becoming embroiled in the latter. As much as the dynamic scenery is home to some breath-taking views, it’s also the sort of unforgiving terrain in which a person could go missing and not be found for days. The Scottish Highlands are beautiful but bleak.

Starring: Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran

Calibre 2018 trailer