Director Johnny Kevorkian's Christmas-set sci-fi horror film AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS managed to sneak right up on me; the movie is set to receive a theatrical and VOD release on October 5th, but the newly released trailer is the first time I've seen or heard anything about it. The film does look quite promising, though, dropping a cast led by the great David Bradley into an intense story of paranoia and in-fighting.
Scripted by Gavin Williams, the film has the following synopsis:
It’s Christmas Day and the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly – an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen a message glows ominously: ‘Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions’. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage.
Bradley's co-stars include Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, Grant Masters, Abigail Cruttenden, Kris Saddler, and Holly Weston.
Stories about people turning against each other while enduring extreme situations tend to draw me in, so AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS definitely has my attention.
Check out the trailer below, then be on the lookout for the film when it's released this Halloween season.