Universal Pictures and Blumhouse has released the trailer for River, their Midnight Madness Toronto International Film Festival breakout that stars Scream Queens Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) and Jane Levy (Evil Dead) as siblings stuck on a broken boat as a serial killer stalks them from the bank.
Written and directed by feature film debutant Joshua Giuliano, River also stars Max Mattern (Cape Fear) as the third member of the family who set out to scatter their father’s ashes, and Dane DiLiegro (Prey) as the masked murdered terrorising them from the shore. Check out the exploitation-style poster and trailer below…
The sun is down. The boat is dead. There’s no cell service. And there’s someone standing, staring, from the shore. From the producers of Backrooms and Obsession comes a vivid, visceral new vision in the slasher genre, marking an electrifying feature-film debut by writer-director Joshua Giuliano. River stars Jane Levy (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead), Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day films, Pulse) and Max Mattern (Cape Fear, Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy) as estranged siblings who reunite in their rural hometown after the death of their father. As they set out to scatter his ashes at his favorite spot on a remote river, the trip devolves into a fight for survival as they are mercilessly hunted by a disturbing masked figure played by Dane DiLiegro (Prey, Only Murders in the Building).
River is only in theaters from January 15th.
