Shudder has acquired Find Your Friends and will stream the visceral thriller on June 12. Watch the first clip below.
Bella Thorne‘s (The Babysitter), Chloe Cherry (“Euphoria”), Helena Howard (I Saw the TV Glow), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), Zion Moreno (“Gossip Girl”), and Chris Bauer (“True Blood”) star.
The film follows Amber and her four best friends as they flee Los Angeles for a girls’ trip in Joshua Tree, only to find themselves unwelcome in a desert town simmering with barely concealed hostility.
After their encounters with the locals grow more threatening, resentments within the group begin to surface. Eventually their vacation spirals into a violent struggle for control and survival.
Writer-director Izabel Pakzad makes her feature debut on the project, inspired by her own terrifying experience on a similar getaway to Joshua Tree.
“Shudder champions work that refuses to play by the rules and challenges everything we think young women should be in genre films,” said Pakzad. “My hope was to make a film that audiences find to be raw, unapologetic and bold, and I am so grateful to be partners with them. I couldn’t imagine a more perfect home for Find Your Friends.”
“We’re thrilled to share Find Your Friends, a visceral film that begins as an escape into the stark beauty of the desert and quickly descends into a gripping struggle where paranoia, resentment, and survival collide,” said Emily Gotto, senior vice president of acquisitions and productions at Shudder. “Audiences should prepare for an intense, emotionally charged experience that rethinks the trope of the final girl.”
Pakzad produces alongside Allison Friedman, Andrea Iervolino, Luca Matrundola, Monika Bacardi, and Gary Michael Walters. Thorne serves as executive producer.
Find Your Friends premiered at the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival. It went on to screen at Fantastic Fest and Toronto International Film Festival, among others.