Iona eagerly tells Vaughn that he and Marcus have “picked the right weekend”: It’s the town’s celebration of Alban Eiler, the Celtic name for the spring equinox, a 24-hour period when day and night are of equal measure. In a pub the night before they head for hunting grounds, two local women, Kara and Iona, home in on the fellows, much to the irritation of a former boyfriend of Kara’s.

Vaughn has a fiancée who’s pregnant, and Marcus takes this occasion to crow to his buddy that he should “enjoy the last few days” of his freedom. “Calibre,” written and directed by Matt Palmer (making his first feature) follows two old friends, Marcus (Martin McCann) and Vaughn (Jack Lowden), on a hunting (or “stalking,” as the townspeople call it) trip to the Scottish Highlands.

“This one’s a genuine nail-biter,” he tweeted, “It’s got a Hitchcock vibe with a little bit of ‘The Wicker Man’ tossed in for good measure.” I’d heard good things about it, too, from friends outside journalism and entertainment the movie seems to have built an organic word-of-mouth buzz (although it does have its own social media account). Earlier this month, the Netflix original movie “Calibre” received a ringing endorsement from no less than the redoubtable author Stephen King, an expert in the fright department.

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