Directed by Ritesh Gupta from a script by Samantha Gurash and Patrick Robert Young, The Red Mask sees a screenwriter travel to a remote cabin with her fiancée to pen a script for a revival of a once-popular slasher franchise. When a pair of strangers claim to have booked the same cabin, fiction and reality start to blur in nightmarish ways.
The film stars Helena Howard, Innanna Sarkis, Jake Abel and Kelli Garner.
The Red Mask receives its world premiere at FrightFest on August 23rd.
"The Red Mask is the kind of story I've been building toward for years: intimate, bloody, and loud," says Gupta. "It's brutally honest, weirdly funny, and deeply personal – and I can't wait to watch it with the fans of FrightFest who truly love genre films. This is a movie about modern-day rage, obsession, culture wars and reclaiming authorship… with blood."
Check the poster and a first clip below.
The official synopsis reads:
When Allina Green, a hotshot indie screenwriter, is hired to revive a cult slasher franchise, she and her fiancée Deetz retreat to a remote rental to 'method-write' a fresh take. But as Allina’s script begins to rewrite itself and two unsettling strangers show up claiming to have booked the same cabin, her weekend writing retreat becomes a terrifying descent into fandom, identity, and a legacy she never asked to inherit.
