Hollywood’s growing trend as of late has been the horror films. It looks as if they are coming back a bit, especially when it comes to films that involve vampires and werewolves. The Twilight generation has grown these beings to be seen as beautiful, cute, and fluffy. Vampires and werewolves are no longer feared, but admired. It’s a good thing we still have vampire films like the following that go to show that they can still be feared and nothing to be messed with. Stake Land is a movie based in the post-apocalyptic setting, where vampires roam the land and humans do what they can to survive the days.
The following trailer comes to you courtesy of IFC Midnight and Dark Sky Films. Director Jim Mickle, director of the zombie-rat thriller Mulberry Street, a movie that Nick Damici also co-wrote and starred in. The duo returns and brings in a darker and bloodier shocker. Drawing on the post-apocalyptic frenzy described by Richard Matheson (author of the novel I Am Legend) and George Romero, Stake Land is a road movie with fangs and a phantasmagoric journey. Stake Land also stars horror movie icon Danielle Harris (Hatchet II) and was produced by indie horror producer-writer-director Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter).
Stake Land is the winner for the Midnight Madness Audience Award: 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. It was also the official Selection for Fantastic Fest 2010, Sitges 2010 and the Lincoln Center Scary Movie Series 2010.
You can check them out and learn more about the film from their official facebook page. Check out the trailer below, and let us know what you think. It seems like something I’d like to see in theaters from a horror movie, how about you?
Directed by Jim Mickle
Written by Nick Damici & Jim Mickle
Starring
Nick Damici, Connor Paolo, Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis, Sean Nelson & Michael Cerveris
Synopsis:
America is a lost nation. When an epidemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, feral beasts. Cities are tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearful of nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Martin (Gossip Girl’s Connor Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward hunter (In the Cut’s Nick Damici) whose new prey are the undead.
Simply known as Mister, the vampire stalker takes Martin on a journey through the locked-down towns of America’s heartland, searching for a better place while taking down any bloodsuckers that cross their path. Along the way they recruit fellow travellers, including a nun (Kelly McGillis) who is caught in a crisis of faith when her followers turn into ravenous beasts. This ragtag family unit cautiously moves north, avoiding major thoroughfares that have been seized by The Brethren, a fundamentalist militia headed by Jebedia Loven (Tony award-winning actor Michael Cerveris) that interprets the plague as the Lord’s work.
STAKE LAND Opens on Friday. April 22nd
