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AFM ’10: Brand New Sales Art for ‘YellowBrickRoad’
Still seeking distribution is Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s Slamdance Film Festival selection, YellowBrickRoad, which follows an expedition looking for answers to something horrible in the forest, but the forest finds something horrible in them. This morning we got our hands on some brand new sales art that can be viewed inside. Click the title above for a review, images, trailers and more.
“One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire – 572 people – walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar’s evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for. Over the years, a quiet cover-up operation managed to weave the story of Friar into the stuff of legends and backwoods fairy tales. The town has slowly repopulated, but the vast wilderness is mostly untracked, with the northern-most stretches off limits to local hunters and loggers. In 2008, the coordinates for the “YELLOWBRICKROAD” trail head were declassified. The first official expedition into a dark and twisted wilderness will attempt to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar…and reach the end of the trail.”
Survivors fight for to preserve their humanity in the final trailer for epic survival thriller The Dog Stars.
The Dog Stars opens exclusively in theaters, IMAX, and premium large formats August 28.
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) star.
The film is “set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice.
“Ridley Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”
Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, and Allison Janney also star.
The film is based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel and written by Mark L. Smith (Overlord, The Revenant) and produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Mark L. Smith, and Cliff Roberts.
The final trailer below previews some post-apocalyptic thrills and feral night sieges, but don’t expect your standard fare here. “We’re doing too many end-of-the-world stories,” Scott recently told Empire of his choice to bypass typical zombie depictions. “This is not The Road. I did not want to do World War Z again; no zombies, please. I thought, ‘What the fuck am I gonna do here?’”
“I think people will be surprised and engaged, actually. I would say, hmm… charmed as well,” Scott says. “Although, there is some violence.”