Awesomely Terrifying First Trailer For ANTLERS From Guillermo del Toro and Scott Cooper
Are you ready for another awesome looking horror movie!? Fox Searchlight pictures has released the first teaser trailer for director Scott Cooper (Hostiles) and producer Guillermo del Toro‘s Antlers and this has the makings of a crazy scary flick!
The film is an adaptation of a short story, The Quiet Boy, from Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, and the film stars Keri Russell as a school teacher in a small-town who begins to suspect something is seriously messed up with one of her students. Here’s the brief plot summary that was shared:
In ANTLERS, a small-town Oregon teacher (Keri 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 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 is set to be released sometime in 2020 and I’ll be looking forward to watching it! If you want to read the short story that the film is based on, click here. Now, check out the trailer!