The Festival de Cinema Fantástico de Porto Alegre, popularly known as Fantaspoa, is the biggest genre festival in Brazil and one of the most important ones in South America. This year, themed on the 100 anniversary of the movie Nosferatu (1922), the festival is known for hosting the worldwide premiere of several of the films that will take part in the festivals’ circuit during the rest of the year. And one of those films will be the creature horror film Desert Shadows (2022).
In the movie, after the death of their father, two brothers decide to embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together. But they get more than they bargained for when they become the prey of a deadly creature that has roamed the desert for centuries. Eric, a struggling drug addict, goes missing, while his brother Donnie becomes hellbent on finding him. Following the downward spiral of dangerous clues, he teams up with a professor with a dark past and an overeager paranormal studies student to try to solve the mystery and save Eric before it’s too late.
This is the debut feature film of Tyler Bourns, a filmmaker who has been known for several short films, the documentaries Freedom 50/50 (2012) and A Glimpse of Heaven and a Taste of Hell (2008), and for being behind the last music videos from classic hard rock band Whitesnake.
The main cast of Desert Shadows (2022) is formed by Aaron Foster, Andy Toulouse, Peter Townley, Tonantzin Nordwall, Paul Sean Ward, Maria Olsen, Richard Leacock, Bill Farmer, and also has the appearance of modern scream queen Emily Sweet (Castle Freak (2020), Fear Pharm (2020), Hostage House (2021)), and Mitch Pileggi, forever immortalized as Walter Skinner in the hit series The X-Files (1994-2018).
Desert Shadows (2022) has its premiere at the Fantaspoa Festival on Saturday, April 23, 2022, and will include the presence of its director Tyler Bourns. To arm up the motors, Raven Banner has unleashed the first official trailer for the movie. Watch it here.
