The Thing with Feathers

The Thing with Feathers (2025) is a British drama directed by Dylan Southern — watch it online on iFILM. Benedict Cumberbatch plays a grieving illustrator left to raise two young boys alone after his wife dies. The apartment holds too much of her, and something starts to move in the dark corners of it.

That something is Crow. It speaks — David Thewlis lends it a voice — scrawls across walls, circles the boys, and won't leave the father alone. He can't tell whether grief has finally broken his mind or whether the presence is real. Sam Spruell and Vinette Robinson play the people on the outside, watching him come apart.

Produced by Film4 Productions and SunnyMarch, the film adapts Max Porter's acclaimed novella about loss and the strange shapes it takes. Stream The Thing with Feathers (2025) online on iFILM.