Cinco de Mayo marked our last scrawling about RIVER OF DARKNESS, a thoroughly uninspired looking creature feature from writer/director Bruce Koehler. I mean, when your three main leads are known for hamming it up in the theatrical world of professional wrestling…what the hell do you expect?!?
But to be fair, the trailer is actually better than expected, whatever that says. We joked when the first official poster for the film crossed the wire, so I was ready to pan the trailer as utter bilge. Is it utter bilge? Take a look below and make the call yourself!
Starring Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash (The Diesel), “Psycho” Syd Vicious, S. William Hinzman, Bill Laing, Alan Rowe Kelly, Bingo O’Malley, Clayton Hill and Sharon Ceccatti – RIVER OF DARKNESS picks up:
When unspeakable evil falls on a quiet river town, and Sheriff Logan is thrust into a chilling nightmare of death and mayhem. He is confronted with a series of horrific murders, each more viscous than the last, and soon learns of the community’s seedy past and the evil that has risen from purgatory to exact revenge on the town. When Sheriff Logan discovers that the murders are committed by the spirits of old river squatters, the Jacobs Boys, the town explodes into an battlefield of blazing guns and zombies.
Once The Jacobs Boys exact their punishing vengeance on the town it’s up to Sheriff Logan to unravel the shocking mystery of the past and slam the Boys back to hell.
RIVER OF DARKNESS looks to enjoy a limited release sometime later this year.