Having directed several acclaimed horror shorts, writer/director
Mary C. Russell makes her feature debut with
The Otherkind.
Inspired by the Irish folklore of the Selkie, the film explores sinister
goings on in a sleepy lakeside town in California.
Marc Anthony Samuel, Lestonja Diaz, Rebekah Kennedy, Paris Dylan,
Muneeb Rehman, Laura Dromerick, Luciana Faulhaber, Caroline O'Meara,
Jeff Pride
and Madonna Young-Magee star.
"When I wrote the first draft several years ago, I was inspired by the
Irish folklore of the selkie," Russell says. "I decided to flip the concept
and bring the story to modern times and shoot where I live in the San
Bernardino Mountains. I wanted to show how multiple people can be affected
by one source of information and what they do with that information, how
they adapt and change, like the townspeople around the lake."
The Otherkind will hit the festival circuit later this
year.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
A worn down cop tries to piece together the days prior to him waking up in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile, a young woman is tainted by an undesirable encounter during a bonfire night with friends. Chaos seeps into a sleepy lake town as lives intertwine, making it clear that there’s something sinister, terrifying and unexplainable at play in this shapeshifting, psychological thriller.
