“That presence was standing behind her. Giving off an overpowering desire to perform acts of cruelty. To mutilate, to desecrate, to inhale the agony of others.”
Now playing in theaters, the Guillermo del Toro-produced, Scott Cooper-directed horror movie Antlers was co-written by “Channel Zero” creator Nick Antosca, based on a short story Antosca wrote titled “The Quiet Boy.“ If you’ve seen the movie and want to dive into the original source material, you’ll be happy to know that you can read it for free right now.
“The Quiet Boy” was published in full over on the website Guernica in 2019, and it’s currently still available for reading on the site. Whether you want to read it after seeing the movie or you’d prefer to whet your appetite for Scott Cooper’s grim horror movie before you actually get around to seeing it – no home video release date at this time – find it right here.
Antlers comes highly recommended by yours truly, a Wendigo-based horror tale with one hell of a monster and some scary good performances. We’ll keep you posted as soon as we learn details on the at-home release, but for now the film is only playing in movie theaters.
In Antlers, a small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, become entwined with a young student harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.
Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons and Jeremy T. Thomas star in the film adaptation of the short story, alongside Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane and Amy Madigan.
