A Kid Is Brutally Attacked by a Monster in Clip from Guillermo del Toro and Scott Cooper's ANTLERS
A horrific clip has been released for producer Guillermo del Toro and director Scott Cooper‘s upcoming horror-thriller Antlers. The clip features a young boy, who is brutally attacked by a monster in the woods.
The movie is an adaptation of a short story, “The Quiet Boy,” from Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca. The terrifying film stars Keri Russell as a school teacher in a small town who begins to suspect something is seriously wrong with one of her young students.
This looks like it’s going to be a great horror movie, and I’ve been anxiously waiting to see it. Here’s the brief plot summary for the film:
In ANTLERS, a small-town Oregon teacher (Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, discover that a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) is harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.
When previously talking about the influence of the film, Copper explained, “I was so influenced early on by the work of John Carpenter, like Halloween, or certainly The Exorcist, which is a favorite of mine, or even Tarkovsky’s Stalker. So I’m able to bring all of that into one film which is exciting.” He went on to say:
“[Guillermo] said I’ve obviously never seen you direct a horror film, but there’s a lot of horrific moments in your movies, so I’m more interested in someone who doesn’t work in that genre to step into it. Which is I guess a bit like Friedkin in a sense, having not directing in that genre before he took on The Exorcist…[Guillermo is] fantastic and so supportive and wildly imaginative, so it’s really been a great collaboration.”
Antlers will finally be released in theaters on October 29th.