“This Land”: A cabin-horror with a political twist

The horror and thriller This Land (2023) presents an alternative to the cabin-horror flicks, those stories where couples or a group of friends go spend a few days in a cabin in the woods but their vacations get threatened by deadly forces, either supernatural or a bunch of murders with the thirst of blood. Here, two families from opposite ends of the political spectrum turn on each other after a cabin rental mix-up but must work together to survive after a sinister group emerges with an ancient pact.

The movie centers on a traumatized mother who agrees to a rustic getaway on the 4th of July with her husband and son in hopes of putting back the pieces of their lives after a violent home invasion cost her a child exactly one year to the date. However, after arriving at the cabin rental they realize they’re double booked with a family with very different political beliefs. As tensions boil over the weekend as they confront grief, race, and the divide within the country – they soon realize there’s something else out here trying to drive them apart. They must band together to drive off a sinister group of elites with unknown intentions in an isolated cabin.

This is the debut feature film for the director and producer Richard Greenwood Jr. after a bunch collection of short films including the awards-winners Hinnon Valley (2010), The Wretched Prologue (2013), and The Good Samaritan (2017). Leon Langford and Collin Watts, the writers for the action-thriller Hot Seat (2022) starring Mel Gibson and Kevin Dillon, have been the authors of the screenplay for This Land (2023).

Natalie Whittle, Adam Burch, John J. Pistone, Mindy Montavon, Jerod Powers, Taylor Joree Scorse, Matthew Vey, and Brynn Sicard form the main cast.

Terror Films has the distribution rights for the movie and has scheduled it for a digital release on March 10, 2023.

Watch the official trailer for This Land (2023).