By Jon Donnis
Buried traumas take on physical form in Shadows of Willow Cabin, where unseen wounds return as something far more tangible. Actor turned writer-director Joe Fria, known for Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 and The Belko Experiment, makes his feature debut with a blend of queer romance and supernatural horror that leans into mood, intimacy and unease.
Following its UK premiere at Raindance Film Festival 2026, Shadows of Willow Cabin arrives on UK digital on 29 June 2026 via GrimmVision.
Albert (Bryan Bellomo), a closeted husband, and Devon (John Brodsky), a wounded soul, withdraw to a remote mountain cabin after a connection forms through sexually charged messages exchanged on a dating app. What begins as hesitation and curiosity gradually shifts into closeness, as the two men move towards intimacy in isolation.
The cabin itself soon becomes part of the story in a more unsettling way. The walls seem to whisper with voices that were thought to be long silenced. Reality begins to distort as the space turns hostile, drawing the pair into a supernatural loop where time fractures, ghosts appear, and repressed trauma takes on visible, terrifying shape.
As the situation tightens and survival becomes uncertain, Albert and Devon are forced to confront the secrets they have carried, both within themselves and between each other, before the cabin overwhelms them completely.
Shadows of Willow Cabin unfolds as a tense and disorientating descent into identity, survival and love pushed to its limit, set against a space where memory and fear refuse to stay buried.
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