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Preview by Jon Donnis
Buried traumas begin to take shape as something physical and inescapable in Shadows of Willow Cabin, a haunting new supernatural horror from actor turned writer-director Joe Fria, known for Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 and The Belko Experiment. The film blends romance with psychological horror, unfolding as a moody and intimate experience that plays out like a fevered descent into memory and fear.
Fria makes his feature debut with a confident fusion of tone and genre, drawing together emotional vulnerability and escalating unease. The result is a story that leans into both tenderness and dread, building a world where personal history refuses to stay buried and begins to reshape the present in unsettling ways.
Albert, played by Bryan Bellomo, and Devon, played by John Brodsky, retreat to a remote mountain cabin in search of space and connection. What begins as cautious desire slowly deepens into intimacy, until the environment around them starts to shift. The cabin itself becomes something far less passive, responding to what the couple have carried with them, and what they have tried to leave behind.
As the walls seem to whisper with voices thought to be silenced long ago, the pair find themselves trapped in a repeating, fractured sense of time. Ghosts emerge, reality bends, and repressed trauma begins to take form in ways that are no longer psychological alone. The cabin becomes a pressure point where identity, memory and fear collide.
Following its international premiere at Grimmfest 2025, Shadows of Willow Cabin arrives on UK digital on 25 May courtesy of GrimmVision.
Apple TV https://apple.co/4dEdiPg
