Dark Sky Films Brings Invites You To "A DESERT" (2024) For A Terrifying Nightmare (TRAILER)

Road trips can be as liberating as they are terrifying, depending on the company you keep and the people you meet. While there are plenty of feel-good stories about finding one’s self on the open road, genre fans know that the highways are just as menacing as a cabin in the woods, just as C. Thomas Howell. Dark Sky Films and Yellow Veil Pictures are also privy to this information, and that’s just some of the dark and sinister goodness waiting within their next release, “A Desert.”

“A Desert” is co-written and directed by Joshua Erkman and has received all kinds of acclaim from prestigious festivals like Tribeca, Sitges, and BeyondFest just to name a few. Now, the rest of the world will be invited to the road-trip nightmare as the film will hit theaters on May 2, 2025. Check out the trailer and details below, and we will be bringing you our review closer to release!

Synopsis and Details

A past his prime photographer heads out on a road trip across the American Southwest to recapture the magic and success of his previous work. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the dark and chaotic underbelly of America and unwittingly drags his wife and a shady private detective down into this nightmare world with him.

A DESERT is a sun-bleached neo-noir horror film about time, the chaos of our world, and the relevance of images in the cultural desert we are faced with today.

With music by Ty Segall whose new album Possession comes out May 30th, A DESERT stars David Yow (Dinner in America, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore), Kai Lennox (Green Room, The Girl from Plainville), Sarah Lind (A Wounded Fawn, Die, My Love), Zachary Ray Sherman (Under the Banner of Heaven, The CW's 90210) and Ashley B. Smith (Off Ramp, Extremity).

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