Written and directed by John Burr (Muse), The Gates sees Mason Gooding, Algee Smith and Keith Powers play three African-American college students who witness a murder while taking a shortcut through an exclusive gated community. The late James Van Der Beek plays the killer who will do anything to stop them from escaping.
The Gates is in US cinemas from March 13th. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
The Gates follows three college students -- Derek, Kevin, and Tyon (Gooding, Smith, and Powers) on a road trip gone wrong, as the three young men take an ill-advised shortcut through a remote gated community, where they find themselves trapped behind the walls after witnessing a murder. Over the course of the night, they find themselves blamed, hunted, and fractured by their own differing belief systems, while the perpetrator—James Van Der Beek, at his most charming and terrifying—emerges as the cunning patriarch that holds the entire community under his influence.
