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‘Cryptid’ Asks, “If They Don’t Exist, Why Is Everyone Dying?”
Bloody Disgusting has learned that The Last Horror Movie director Julian Richards is back behind the camera for a new indie thriller, Cryptid, which asks, “If it doesn’t exist, why is everyone dying?” Penned by Monica Hilborn (The Guardian, Amphibian), inside you’ll find the full synopsis and sales art. Watch for casting as soon as it comes in.“Snowy mountains, a creepy forest, and a dying mining town are the setting for this dark, horror-thriller about a failed zoologist named Frankie with a Moby Dick obsession to find the “cryptid” she believes killed her father. Now the once prosperous gold town is shutting down, everyone is being evacuated, and Frankie’s pet theory is dismissed as the raving of a woman suffering from the same delusional paranoia that plagues her mother – that they would rather believe in monsters than accept the fact that the men they love leave them.
The harder Frankie hunts for it, the more dangerous and elusive her creature becomes. Is Frankie avoiding her internal demons by chasing a monster that is more obsessive delusion than reality? But if the cryptid doesn’t exist, then who’s doing all the killing?”
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.