After a number of years of creating quick movies, Hugo Keijzer has made his characteristic directorial debut with the survival thriller The Occupant – and we’re going to have the prospect to see how the movie has turned out very quickly! Decal Releasing will likely be giving The Occupant a theatrical and VOD launch in the USA on August 8th, and with that date simply 4 weeks away, a trailer has dropped on-line. You possibly can test it out within the embed above.
The movie had its premiere on the 2025 SXSW London Movie Competition simply final month, and the reactions that got here out of its two screenings there have been fairly optimistic.
Keijzer wrote the screenplay with Philip Michael Howe, Roelof Jan Minneboo, and Xiao Tang, crafting a narrative that facilities on Abby, a determined geologist who takes a high-paying, high-risk mining job within the distant wilds of Northern Georgia to fund her sister’s experimental most cancers remedy. However when her chopper goes down and her radio turns into her solely lifeline, Abby finds herself in a survival state of affairs that’s equal components icy terrain & psychological warfare. Enter John, a mysterious voice on the opposite finish. He’s charming, he’s useful… and he may not be actual. As Abby’s oxygen thins and her doubts rise, the true query isn’t how she’ll get out, however who she’s speaking to… and what he needs. Is she actually speaking to somebody who can assist, somebody who claims to “know exactly how she feels right now”? Scared, alone, and no thought the way to get to security.
Ella Balinska (Run Sweetheart Run, Charlie’s Angels, Resident Evil) and Rob Delaney (Deadpool 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Disaster) star. Stuart Graham (Starvation), Sheena Kelly (Borderline), Vanessa Ifediora (A Haunting in Venice), Armin Karima (Intercourse Schooling), George Lasha (Extraction II), and newcomer Konstantine Roinishvili are additionally within the solid. The movie was produced by Raymond van der Kaaij, Isabel Freer, Jay Taylor, and Kwesi Dickson. It has a working time of 104 minutes.
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