New Featurette For Guillermo del Toro's Horror Film ANTLERS and Comic-Con@Home Virtual Panel
Producer Guillermo del Toro and director Scott Cooper recently came together to talk about their gruesome and jacked-up looking horror-thriller Antlers for the film’s Comic-Con@Home virtual panel.
The movie is an adaptation of a short story, The Quiet Boy, from Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca. The upcoming film looks like a terrifying adaptation and it 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. It seriously looks like it’ll be an awesome horror movie!
In the panel, a featurette is shared with never-before-seen footage from the movie and the filmmakers discuss the horror movie along with how they designed the creepy Wendigo-inspired monster in it. In addition, they dive into an in-depth conversation on the craft of filmmaking and how they create a visual style. It was also revealed that Antlers will now be released in theaters on February 19th, 2021.
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.”
You can watch the featurette and panel in the video below.