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Netflix's Unchosen takes us into the chilling world of an underground religious cult. It's eerie, addictive and, perhaps a little surprisingly, quite beautiful. At least, those breathtaking landscape locations are.
The thriller tells the story of married couple Rosie (Molly Windsor) and Adam (Sex Education's Asa Butterfield) — and it's kind of like a digital detox from hell. The couple live in the Fellowship of the Divine — a strange, rural religious cult that bans the use of modern day technology. When the “unchosen” outsider Sam (Fra Fee) arrives, he shakes things up in the cult, and the organisation's dark foundations begin to show through the cracks — and honestly, are any of us surprised when they do?
No rest for the wicked.
While life in the Fellowship looks downright grim — particularly for the submissive, subservient women — there's no denying that they've got a very nice plot of land. Set in the remote British countryside, Unchosen will probably leave you craving weekend getaway — minus the creepy cult, of course.
If you're curious about where the show was filmed, we've got you covered.
You're in for a surprise.
Surrey
Much of the filming, which reportedly took place between August and December 2024, happened in the Surrey countryside.
“Surrey is a nice area, quite affluent in parts, but we weren’t interested in anything that felt benign,” said director Jim Loach to Country & Town House. “So we chose to shoot the exterior scenes at times of day when the light was low, the shadows long – so you always feel like someone could be listening in, or watching them, unseen in the corner of the frame.”
According to Loach, the woodland and fields of Surrey became crucial to telling the story. “I wanted to feel the weather, see the sky – I felt the show should have a timeless look, and a kind of ‘primal’ feel to it,” he said. “It’s not a story that needs tonnes of tech, or modern stuff in it – it’s primarily about the most human dilemmas, dark secrets and desires. It’s from the gut, a bit.”
Shepperton Studios
Many of the interior shots were actually shot in sets build in Shepperton Studios in Surrey, not far from the other filming locations.
A former Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
According to fans on Reddit, a former Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in Harrow, London, served as the setting for the meeting hall of the Fellowship.
“We shot the big meeting hall scenes in a place that an organisation had left at some point in the past,” Loach said to the Independent of the location. “In its bone structure, it had something really informative for the piece."
He went on: “We reimagined it and filled it with supporting actors, and we had Christopher Ecclestone’s character, leader Mr Phillips, delivering the sermon. They were very memorable scenes to shoot because the building had no windows and only one door – an electric sliding door that sealed the whole place shut.”
Loach called the place “unnerving." And, yeah, we got that, too!
