It wouldn’t be a cinematic year without a handful of horror features and today we have two new previews for forthcoming ones, originating from directors with wildly differently sensibilities. First up, after cutting his teeth on dark comedies, Bobcat Goldthwait (World’s Greatest Dad, God Bless America) has transferred to the world of Bigfoot with the found-footage horror Willow Creek. We were fans of it, saying in our review, “I would have never expected the refreshingly original Goldthwait to follow-up America with a found-footage mockumentary horror film, but that spontaneity is all part of the charm and the result has plenty of his signature humor and snark despite adopting a gentler, more bemused stance this time around.” Check out the new trailer and poster below.
Set in Humboldt County, California, Willow Creek centers on Jim (Bryce Johnson, Pretty Little Liars) a Bigfoot believer whose idea of a romantic getaway is to head deep into Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California, video camera in tow, trying to shoot his own Bigfoot footage at the site of the Patterson-Gimlin film. That 1967 fragment of footage purporting to show Sasquatch striding along a dry riverbed became a key artifact in the cryptozoology community, and Jim dreams of nothing more than setting foot on the actual location where it was shot. His long-suffering girlfriend, Kelly (Alexie Gilmore, World’s Greatest Dad), agrees to tag along for the ride, despite the fact that she thinks Bigfoot has about as much chance of being real as leprechauns.
Following that we have the first full-length trailer for Eli Roth‘s cannibal feature The Green Inferno, which was shot in the same neck of the woods as Werner Herzog‘s Aguirre. We said in our review, “He seems sure of the (obviously violent) human behaviors he wants to document, yet not of the striking images necessary to compellingly do so, as is imminently apparent by The Green Inferno’s television-esque cinematography.” Check out the new trailer and poster below for the film that kicks off the fall.
Idealistic Justine (Lorenza Izzo) joins a group of campus radicals on a mission to disrupt the illegal clear-cutting of a Peruvian jungle, which is endangering the tranquil lives of an isolated Amazonian tribe. Armed with good intentions and the power of their cellphone cameras, the group flies to Peru and seemingly succeeds in their mission. But the activists’ celebration quickly turns to tragedy when their plane crashes in the jungle — and they find themselves on the dinner menu of the very people they were trying to protect.
Willow Creek lands in theaters and VOD on June 6th, while The Green Inferno arrives on September 5th.