I hope you’re hungry for more found footage because there’s plenty cooking and few look tastier than Scott Slone’s Malibu Horror Story.
Bloody Disgusting revealed a new trailer and release date for the ambitious found footage movie that has toured the festival circuit for a while now.
Malibu Horror Story follows a team of amateur paranormal investigators as they delve into the disappearance of four popular high school boys on graduation night ten years before. While exploring a sacred cave in the hills of Malibu California, the team encounters chilling paranormal occurrences. As they analyze footage from the missing teens’ camera, they make a terrifying discovery involving an ancient curse which forces them to confront their own worst fears and unravel the sinister truth behind the boys’ vanishing.
The trailer can be seen below, and it has a hint of Neil Marshall’s The Descent to it which is no bad thing.
Malibu Horror Story Trailer and Release Date
Director/Writer/Producer Scott Slone shot Malibu Horror Story for more than ten years with 30 different cameras and various codecs, and drew inspiration from films like Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield.
The movie stars Dylan Sprayberry (Teen Wolf, Sick), Robert Bailey Jr. (Nightshift, Emergence), Valentina de Angelis (Gossip Girl), and Rebecca Forsythe (Replace). The film features contortionist and creature actor “Twisty” Troy James (as seen being freaky in Nightmare Alley, Hellboy, and Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark) and Actor/Stunt Performer Douglas Tait (Annabelle Comes Home, Hellboy, and Halloween Kills).
Slone spoke about how he approached found footage with Malibu Horror Story in the announcement.
“I am a big fan of the found footage sub-genre and wanted to try and do something different with the format and structure of how a traditional found footage film is presented. Our story is told through different perspectives, timelines, and layers of media that were compiled over several years. The goal was to incorporate all of those elements and place them inside of a conventional horror movie structure that would not only appeal to found footage enthusiasts but to a broader horror audience as well.”
Malibu Horror Story is set for a limited run at select theaters on October 20, 2023.
