A new Welsh folk horror that was filmed over 18 days in rural Powys will be released in cinemas today (Friday).

Hollywood actor Julian Lewis Jones and Brecon actress Nia Roberts star as a wealthy couple in The Feast which was was shot inside a modernist building known as Life House in the Llanbister area during summer 2019.

Steeped in folklore with themes of greed and corruption, and filmed in the Welsh language, the contemporary horror unfolds in the home of politician Gwyn (Lewis Jones) and his wife Glenda played by Roberts.

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They are throwing a lavish dinner party at their home made of glass and steel in the Welsh mountains to seal a deal for mineral mining in the area.

The lucrative project relies on a neighbouring farmer being persuaded to sell parcels of his rich and fertile land.

A mysterious young woman called Cadi (Annes Elwy who starred in Little Women) is hired as a waitress for the evening.

Painfully shy and largely silent, she exerts an increasingly poisonous influence over the dinner party, sparking conflict and bloodshed that will force Gwyn, Glenda and their guests to confront manifold shortcomings.

The Feast, which was directed by Lee Haven Jones and written by Roger Williams, is rated 18 and will be released in selected cinemas on Friday, August 19.

The Wyeside in Builth Wells will be showing the film from September 2 to 4, and 6 to 8.

It is not the first time that the Radnorshire village has attracted Hollywood stars. In 2018, Kevin Bacon, who is known for his roles in Footloose, and Apollo 13, filmed You Should Have Left at the Life House. The 62-year-old said he enjoyed some of the "quietest nights" of his life while filming in the county.