Screen Rant has the exclusive first So Cold The River trailer and poster revealing the haunted hotel film starring One Tree Hill's Bethany Joy Lenz. Based on Michael Koryta's New York Times bestseller of the same name, the story revolves around documentary filmmaker Erica Shaw as she is hired to profile ailing millionaire Campbell Bradford, whose sole clue is an antique bottle filled with water from a local spring. While staying at a luxury resort in town, Erica meets a descendant of Bradford's and learns of a familial curse of mysterious suicides and deaths, and as she begins drinking from the antique bottle, she is subjected to terrifying visions and unleashes an unspeakable evil.
Bethany Joy Lenz leads the cast of So Cold The River alongside Katie Sarife, Tony Award-winner Deanna Dunagan, The Walking Dead alum Andrew J. West and Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner. The horror adaptation hails from writer/director Paul Shoulberg, with author Koryta attached as an executive producer alongside Peter Yonkman, Carl Cook and Joy Lenz. With Saban Films having acquired the rights to So Cold The River late last year, the film is finally gearing up to release in March.
With just over a month remaining until the film's arrival, Screen Rant has the exclusive first So Cold The River trailer and poster. The video offers a look at the haunted hotel thriller centered on a filmmaker who inadvertently awakens a dark evil long thought to be buried in the past. Check out the chilling trailer and poster below:
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The So Cold The River trailer is sure to come as an enticing new outing in the haunted hotel genre for horror movie fans, with a story exploring the nature of a haunted past in a seemingly similar vein to that of The Shining and The Innkeepers. Director Paul Shoulberg also appears to have infused his film with a number of terrifying visuals reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel, namely in the sweeping shots of its central hotel and mysterious party setting seen partway through the trailer. Horror genre fans may also find some interest in the film with star Katie Sarife, who previously cut her teeth in the world of haunted locations with Annabelle Comes Home.
So Cold The River also marks the latest dive into the horror-thriller genre from Saban Films in the past few years. 2021 saw the studio pick up the rights to both Don't Tell A Soul and the Wrong Turn reboot while their slate the year before included the Elijah Wood-starring black horror comedy Come to Daddy and the Alexandra Daddario-led We Summon the Darkness. Only time will tell whether So Cold The River proves to be another success for Saban when it hits theaters on March 25 followed by digital platforms and VOD on March 29.