Trailer for Shudder's African Neo-Western Horror Thriller SALOUM

Shudder has released a trailer for a great-looking film titled Saloum, which is a neo-western horror thriller set in Africa. The film follows a three mercenaries who are escorting a foreigner drug dealer through the dangerous lands of West Africa, and their journey turns into a wild action-packed horror adventure. The film looks like it takes audiences on one hell of an energetic ride, and I’m ready to jump on and enjoy where it takes me!

Here’s the synopsis:

Amidst Guinea-Bissau’s coup d’état of 2003, Bangui’s Hyenas, an elite trio of mercenaries, skillfully extract a drug dealer and his bricks — both gold and narcotic — from the chaos and make tracks for Dakar, Senegal. But when their escape plan is unexpectedly waylaid, the Hyenas find themselves and their bounty stranded in the Sine-Saloum Delta, a coastal river realm speckled with insulated island communities and steeped in myth and mystery. Believing they can keep a low profile at a nearby holiday encampment, they attempt to blend in with all of the tourists but are soon at risk of exposure with the arrival of both a suspicious police captain and an enigmatic Signing deaf woman who harbours secrets of her own."

Saloum is directed by Jean Luc Herbulot and it stars Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Roger Sallah, Mentor Ba, and Bruno Henry. The film initially premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival last year. Shudder will debut Saloum on September 8th, 2022.