Kindness becomes the threat in The Nice Ones, a British horror film from 2026 in which a weekend in the country goes wrong not with screams but with smiles.
What is The Nice Ones about?
Kate agrees to spend a few days at a remote retreat with her boyfriend and his circle of friends, people who share a history she is only partly privy to. The countryside setting should be restful, but the group carries unresolved grievances that surface almost as soon as the bags are unpacked. Then strange lights appear over the fields at night. What follows is not an invasion in any obvious sense. Instead, one by one, members of the party begin to soften: tempers vanish, arguments dissolve, and everyone becomes remarkably, unnaturally pleasant. Kate notices the shift and cannot get anyone to take her alarm seriously; the calmer the others grow, the more she is treated as the unstable one. The film follows her attempt to work out what is changing her companions and to stop it before the same serenity reaches everyone, including her.
About the cast
Joelle Rae leads the cast, with Emrhys Cooper, Ayvianna Snow, Daniela Norman, James Akka, Donna Preston and Ian Whyte completing the house party. The premise asks its actors to play two versions of the same person, the prickly friend before the change and the eerily agreeable one after, so small shifts in tone and posture carry more weight than make-up or effects.
Context & significance
Peter Stylianou directs this United Kingdom production, which runs a tight 89 minutes and sits where drama, horror and science fiction overlap. The idea of a quiet replacement of personality has a long lineage in the genre, and The Nice Ones gives it a contemporary and distinctly British twist: the horror is social before it is cosmic, rooted in the awkwardness of a group holiday and the way a woman's concerns can be dismissed as hysteria.
Watching The Nice Ones on Ktime
The Nice Ones is available on K-Time with a free account login. The film is presented in its original English audio; Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are not offered for this title at present. The K-Time interface itself is in Persian, built for Iranian viewers abroad.