Tommy Wiseau (Big Shark) terrorizes in the first trailer, images, and poster for horror movie Silt, formerly titled Lake Vernon, arriving in theaters this fall.
Former NFL star turned filmmaker Vernon Davis (The Ritual Killer) produces and stars in the film alongside Malcolm Goodwin (“Reacher”), David Anders (“The Vampire Diaries”), Olivia Grace Applegate (“Love and Death”), Andrea Sixtos (“Arrow”), and Tommy Wiseau.
The ensemble cast—which also includes Michael Papajohn, Isaiah LaBorde, and Ledger LaBorde—will hit the road in October and November for a series of special screenings across the country, with stops planned in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, and Dallas. Fans can request screenings in their cities by visiting https://demandthescreen.com/demand-the-screen.
In the film, “Hadria (Sixtos), a woman haunted by guilt she cannot explain, is talked into a weekend at an exclusive lakeside sanctuary by her best friend Sierra (Applegate) and Sierra’s boyfriend Scott (Anders). She has never warmed to the hosts, Rick (Goodwin) and Anna (Smitha), but she goes for a shot at something with Mike Warner (Davis), a pro athlete sidelined by a knee injury. The property sits behind three locked gates, where hundreds of deer assemble, watching. The lake comes with lore, the kind that makes a good firepit story, and Bartleby (Wiseau), the eccentric owner, tells them it carries the genes of the Gods. Hadria doesn’t buy any of it, right up until the water starts proving Bartleby right.“
Not only does Davis star and produce, but Silt is adapted from a story by Davis and Tiffany Toney. The story was adapted for the screen by director Aaron Jay Rome and writer/producer Isaiah LaBorde.
Rome said, “Silt presented an interesting opportunity to explore the things we do—and don’t—tell the people closest to us. On its face, it has all the makings of the familiar cabin-in-the-woods trope, but I was interested in subverting that expectation by bringing something cosmic and universal into what could otherwise feel like a recycled idea. At its core, it’s a movie about the unreliability of the human mind, the Monkey’s Paw effect of things that appear miraculous on the surface but carry consequences unknowable to us, and the lengths we’ll go to get something we desperately want.”
He added, “I’m eager for audiences to predict where the movie is going, be inevitably wrong, and then immediately tell their friends and family they need to see it too. It’s a lot of fun, the performances are incredible, and more than anything, I hope it leads to long conversations on the drive home from the theater.”
