Dark Atlantic Debuts First Look at STRAWSTALKER
A New House Brings More than a Couple Bargained For
Over the Top Found Footage to be Released This Spring
Dark Atlantic Studios is excited to release the first trailer for Strawstalker, the latest horror feature from writer/director George Henry Horton. This campy new addition to the found footage canon follows a fame hungry couple who move into an ideal LA home, only to have their new dream life spiral into a nightmare at the straw hands of a supernatural scarecrow. Strawstalker will be released by Indie Rights later this spring.
Along with the trailer, Horton shared his thoughts on the film’s imminent release.
“I’ve always been fascinated by Los Angeles, and especially the San Fernando Valley. Not that long ago, it was all farmland. Now it’s this strange mix of suburbia, aspiration, and performance. You can’t help but wonder what the land remembers… and what it might say about us now. Out of those ideas, and with a bit of tongue-in-cheek eye-rolling at how performative life in LA can be, Strawstalker was born. We set it in our own imagined neighborhood, Oak Bridge – a place that feels just real enough, but slightly off, like something isn’t quite telling the truth.”
Henry and Haley are a rising content creator couple who’ve just moved into Oak Bridge, a Los Angeles neighborhood marketed as the safest place to live. They’re ready to film every ‘spontaneous’ moment of their new life, unaware that Oak Bridge isn’t interested in being part of their brand. In this neighborhood, the silence is intentional, and the perfection is a performance. When a theatrical scarecrow appears behind their backyard hedge, Henry – a man whose life is a carefully crafted lie – assumes it’s a viral prank. Haley, the ‘true’ heart of the pair who often finds herself going along with Henry’s nonsense, keeps the camera rolling. Then the footage changes. A local warns them that the creature hunts those who aren’t what they seem. In Oak Bridge, the land has a long memory, the neighbors are always watching, and the camera never stops rolling.
Strawstalker: 81 minutes / USA
