Fun Trailer for a Throwback Horror Film About a Creepy VHS Board Game BEYOND THE GATES
You've got to watch this trailer for a fun looking throwback horror thriller called Beyond the Gates. I wasn't really sure what to make of this film when I first started watching the trailer, and then it got to a point where the main characters start playing a VHS-type board game in which they have to play to save their missing father's soul. That's the concept that grabbed my attention, and I love the whole VHS throwback vibe of it. It looks like it will be an entertaining flick! You can read Ben's review of it here. This is the synopsis:
The movie stars Graham Skipper (Almost Human) and Chase Williamson (John Dies at the End) as "two estranged brothers who reunite to sift through the contents of their missing dad’s VHS rental store. Among the inventory, they discover an interactive VCR board game, which their father viewed just before he vanished. Intrigued, the pair pop in the tape, press play, and soon discover that, far from an ordinary game, the video is a portal to a nightmarish alternate reality overseen by a sinister hostess, played by Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), and that in order to save their father’s soul, they must play by her rules."
The movie was directed by Jackson Stewart, who had this to say about the project:
“Steve Scarlata, my co-writer, who produced Jodorowsky’s Dune, he pitched me this idea of a VCR board game that opens another dimension. I said, ‘That’s the best idea I’ve ever heard. We have to start writing on that today.’ We started outlining it that afternoon and we were shooting about 11 months from when we first started writing.”
The movie also stars Brea Grant (Heroes), Matt Mercer (the Contracted franchise), Jesse Merlin (FDR: American Badass!), Jesse Welborn (The Crazies), Sara Malakul Lane (Sun Choke), and Henry LeBlanc. The film will get a limited theatrical release and a VOD release on December 9th.
Source: EW