Antlers: Trailer and Release Date for Guillermo del Toro Produced Horror Film

Antlers will showcase an intriguing spin on horror film conventions, mixing the old “a boy and his monster” fantasy trope of Pete’s Dragon and Where the Wild Things Are with a voraciously deadly deer twist.   

Hannibal), adapting Antosca’s short story, The Quiet Boy. David Goyer and J. Miles Dale also serve as producers.

Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons headline here, ed by Jeremy T. Thomas, who plays a small-town kid with the most problematic secret buddy ever.

Antlers Release Date

Antlers was expected to lock horns at theaters on April 17, 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is currently delayed indefinitely.

Antlers Trailer

A new trailer for Antlers has arrived, expanding on the film’s plot, but maintaining the mystery of its monster.

You can also check out the previous trailer, which is poignantly ominous in its ambiguity.

As the official Antlers synopsis reads:

In ANTLERS, a small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, discover that a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) is harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.

Antlers Cast

Keri Russell will come into the film off an appearance in The Americans, and, in the past five years, appeared in films such as The Free State of Jones and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Jesse Plemons recently appeared in Netflix’s De Niro/Pacino-headlined, Scorsese-directed feature, Black Mirror: USS Callister co-star, Cristin Milioti.

Child actor Jeremy T. Thomas (The Righteous Gemstones) is also ed in the cast by Graham Greene (Goliath), Scott Haze (Venom), Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick) and Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams).

Director Scott Cooper most recently helmed the 2017 American Civil War drama, Hostiles, which arrived after his work on 2015’s Black Mass, in which Johnny Depp played nationally-notorious criminal-turned informant, Whitey Bulger. He also directed 2013 Christian Bale-headlined drama Out of the Furnace, and made an impact with his feature debut, the 2009 Jeff Bridges-headlined country music drama, Crazy Heart.

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