Following an expansive film festival run around the globe, the found footage film Malibu Horror Story will hit select theaters on October 20, 2023, and the trailer has arrived.

Bloody Disgusting is exclusively debuting the trailer for Malibu Horror Story, which you’ll find below. The film will be available in limited theaters from Iconic Events Releasing.

Malibu Horror Story follows a team of amateur paranormal investigators as they delve into a 10 year old unresolved case, the disappearance of four popular high school boys on graduation night. While exploring a sacred cave in the hills of Malibu California, the team encounters chilling paranormal occurrences. As they analyze footage from the missing teens’ camera, they make a terrifying discovery involving an ancient curse which forces them to confront their own worst fears and unravel the sinister truth behind the boys’ vanishing.

Director/Writer/Producer Scott Slone shot Malibu Horror Story over the course of ten-plus years with 30 different cameras and various codecs, and drew inspiration from films like Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield.

Dylan Sprayberry (“Teen Wolf,” Sick), Robert Bailey Jr. (Nightshift, Emergence), Valentina de Angelis (“Gossip Girl”), and Rebecca Forsythe (Replace, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) star. The film features contortionist and creature actor “Twisty” Troy James (Nightmare Alley, Hellboy, Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark) and Actor/Stunt Performer Douglas Tait (Annabelle Comes Home, Hellboy and Halloween Kills). The film’s cast also includes Tommy Cramer, Veno Miller, Jacob Hughes, and Hector Gomez Jr.

“I am a big fan of the found footage sub-genre and wanted to try and do something different with the format and structure of how a traditional found footage film is presented. Our story is told through different perspectives, timelines, and layers of media that were compiled over several years. The goal was to incorporate all of those elements and place them inside of a conventional horror movie structure that would not only appeal to found footage enthusiasts but to a broader horror audience as well,” said Slone.

Producer Andrew Williams added, “We are thrilled with the positive reception from fans and critics during our film festival run this past year, and the success has demonstrated that this is a horror movie made to be experienced in theaters, and we couldn’t be happier that we finally found the right partner with Iconic Events Releasing to help us bring it to the big screen.”

Meagan wrote in her Panic Fest review, “Slone’s unique structural approach, zippy pacing, and creature work push the needle forward slightly in found footage’s evolution.”

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