Last week some new stills from Jon Knautz’s JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER follow-up, THE SHRINE, hit the ‘net. Now, in anticipation of its FantasiaFest premiere next week, the trailer has popped up over at ShockTillYouDrop, and it’s been embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
It looks rather cool, sort of a modern take on those beloved Hammer horror films from back in the day; gothic and outlandish but serious in tone, with lots of rusty torture devices and sacrificial altars in the mix. Consider me sold.
A small group of American journalists embarks to a remote Polish village in search of (the likely remains of) a U.S. backpacker who vanished off the face of the Earth. His disappearance has been linked to the distant village in question, and the journalists arrive hoping to find answers. Answers they will get, and it’s not going to be pretty. Because the shadowy village of Alwaina is a place of very old, very terrible secrets, and of even worse cultural traditions. It begins when the reporters uncover a pagan-looking shrine surrounded by a mysterious fog that hangs frozen in the air, unmoving and deathly. This rouses the already somewhat hostile locals fully against them. Things take an even more sinister turn towards the demonic, pitting our heroes against inconceivable, unforgiving terrors that begin to emerge throughout the village.
THE SHRINE stars Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Debra McCabe, Connor Stanhope, Monica Bugajski, Meghan Heffern, Ben Lewis and Trevor Matthews.
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