Magnet Releasing revaled the official trailer for The Seeding, the horror film starring Scott Haze (Venom, Jurassic World Dominion) as a hiker lost in the desert, who takes refuge with a mysterious woman played by Kate Lyn Sheil (You’re Next, V/H/S).
Release Date
Written and directed by Barnaby Clay (Shot! The Psycho-spiritual Mantra Of Rock), The Seeding world premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, and will be released in theaters and on VOD on January 26, 2024
Synopsis
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, he takes refuge with a woman living alone, and soon discovers that she might not be there willingly when a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
Director/Writer Barnaby Clay commented, “The Seeding deals with big themes, but in a small, contained way, almost like a brutal adult version of a children’s story or fable – something to bore under your skin and stick around for a while. I hope, like all great horror, it speaks some truth about human nature, even if its a side we’d rather not see.”
Prior to The Seeding, Barnaby directed the documentary SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock, and his award-winning short films includes Carousel starring Chloe Sevigny and Sickdog starring Tunde Adebimpe and Natasha Lyonne. Barnaby’s background is rooted in the music and art space having directed numerous music videos for bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan and TV On The Radio and creating unique art installations like Live On Mars Revisited and An Encounter With Lux Prima.
Reviews
Calling the film, a ‘confident debut’ by filmmaker Barnaby Clay, DreadCentral review said, “Clay crafts an entire, primal world in his debut, questioning the nature of modern existence and what one needs beyond the most basic and animalistic of needs. Whether evil lurks within or beyond the walls of the crater, Clay never answers. Instead, he posits a world much like ours though smaller in scale, reducing it to a cycle of birth and death, one informed and threatened by conventional gender roles and the constraint innate therein. The Seeding could have benefited from a stronger tilt in either direction, with conventional scares undermining the mystifying, arthouse approach, though it’s as strong a debut as any. It’s a savage world out there and The Seeding won’t let you forget it.”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for The Seeding.