Ahead of its digital released this March, Gravitas Ventures has shared a trailer and poster for director Alix Lambert’s upcoming folk horror The Woods Are Real.
The film follows privileged, progressive couple Joba and Quincy (Matt Dellapina and Chinasa Ogbuagu) as they take up their friend’s invitation to attend a country pilgrimage that will challenge their bleeding hearts, but upon arrival they find all of their digital records have been erased, their bank accounts drained, and the couple are caught in a fight for survival as they attempt to escape the woods. Watch the trailer below…
“Joba and Quincy are a privileged, fiercely progressive Brooklyn couple – they buy the right things, donate to the proper foundations, and march for every just cause. But when their friend, Caleb, returns from a country pilgrimage challenging their bleeding liberal hearts, Quincy is initially sceptical. Joba insists they take up an invitation to the same off-grid spot, they are met by a kitschy cabin in the woods peppered with analogue devices of a simpler age: a rotary phone, religious iconography, an Edison machine.
And when a curiously labelled record plays a menacing message, Joba and Quincy rapidly learn that their bank accounts have been drained, their digital records erased, and their family businesses are collapsing. They try to flee, only to grow more enveloped by the woods. With nothing left but the clothes on their backs, the couple find themselves trapped in a spiritual test of survival…”
The Woods Are Real arrives on digital on March 12th.
