Get ready for a crowded Halloween weekend as Searchlight Pictures is set to finally release Antlers, their creature feature from director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro, in theaters this coming Friday, October 29, 2021.
Meagan reviewed the film, writing that “Antlers sleepwalks through somber folkloric family nightmare.”
In Antlers, a small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, become entwined with a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.
Based on the short story “The Quiet Boy” by Nick Antosca (“Channel Zero”), Antlers is written by Henry Chaisson and Antosca, with revisions by Cooper.
Bloody scored another clip from the film that’s quite chilling. In it, Keri Russell tells the young boy that his father is dead. He disagrees, assuring her that not only is he still alive, but in order to gain his love, he needs to “feed him.” This most likely ties directly into the absolutely vicious first clip in which the boy feeds a class bully to some sort of monster.