The Lair Trailer Teases New Creature Feature From The Descent Director Neil Marshall
A new gruesome creature flick is on the way from The Descent director Neil Marshall. RLJE Films recently released the first trailer for The Lair, which is set for release at the end of the month with Shudder bringing the film to streaming in February of 2023.
Marshall, who has created films like the recentHellboy reboot and The Reckoning, made waves in the horror world with 2005’s The Descent, in which a group of women on an outdoor spelunking adventure journey into an unexplored cave inhabited by a horrifying world of creatures they must try to escape from. The film has been praised for its mix of feminist themes, monster horror, slow-build dread, and old-fashioned gore.
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The Lair stars Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning) as a Royal Air Force pilot shot down over Afghanistan where she flees opposing forces by hiding in a bunker. There, she finds terrifying bloodthirsty alien/human hybrid creatures created as biological weapons. She returns with her fellow soldiers to investigate only to wind up their prey. Marshall, who conceived the film during 2020 and co-wrote it with Kirk, said in a statement, «I’m thrilled to be back in the world of full-blooded action horror for the first time since ‘The Descent’ and ‘Dog Soldiers,’ and this film certainly holds some kinship with those two movies.»
«Originally conceived as a small and contained indie film to shoot during lockdown, my ambitions for the movie grew into something much more action-packed and monster-fuelled, with a sci-fi twist,» Marshall continued. «It’s packed full of cool characters, scares, laughs, and of course some grizzly death scenes.” The Lair cast also includes Jonathan Howard(Thor: The Dark World) and Jamie Bamber
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