Dark Sky Films debuted the official trailer for A Desert, the neo-noir/horror hybrid film from director Joshua Erkman, making his feature directorial debut.

Starring in the movie are David Yow (Dinner in America, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore), Kai Lennox (Green Room, The Girl from Plainville), Sarah Lind (A Wounded Fawn, Die, My Love), Zachary Ray Sherman (Under the Banner of Heaven, The CW’s 90210) and Ashley B. Smith (Off Ramp, Extremity).

A Desert premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and will be released in theaters on May 2nd.

The synopsis reads, “A past his prime photographer heads out on a road trip across the American Southwest to recapture the magic and success of his previous work. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the dark and chaotic underbelly of America and unwittingly drags his wife and a shady private detective down into this nightmare world with him.”

Critic Christian Zilko of Indiewire in his review gave the film a B, writing, “Structurally, “A Desert” is a quintessential neo-noir story about a man who goes missing and a wife who gets more than she bargained for when she hires private detectives to find him. But the film breaks from genre tradition with its willingness to let many of its biggest mysteries go unsolved. Erkman fills in some of those gaps with touches of surreal horror, but is often content to let the audience bask in the unsettling desert vibes. An avid desert photographer in his own right, the filmmaker frames his many shots of crumbling roadside Americana like a deep sea nature documentary — you never know when the enemy hiding in plain sight is about to pounce. And like those photos, “A Desert” won’t be truly finished until the audience projects their own fears into the dark corners that it fails to illuminate.”

Watch the official trailer for A Desert.