‘Herd’ Trailer: Surviving For Love In The Zombie Apocalypse
In his new film Herd, director Steven Pierce uses the zombie to create a film not just about surviving the undead, but what happens when you have to hide parts of yourself in the name of survival. Inspired by his own past, Pierce combines supernatural horror with the very real horrors of alt-right groups to create a multi-layered survival story for two women on a canoe trip.
Read the full synopsis:
When Jamie Miller and her wife, Alex Kanai, try to save their failing marriage by going on a canoe trip in rural Missouri, they find themselves stranded after an accident. Alex breaks her leg during a canoe flip and they must slowly make their way to the nearest small town for help. Upon arriving they find it has been overrun by virus-infected “Heps” and extreme right-wing local militias who are battling them.
The leader of one of the groups, “Big John Gruber”, shuttles them to safety at his bunker where they are welcomed by a seemingly friendly group of locals, but after witnessing personal and gruesome horrors, the women know they must escape.
Jamie and Alex now find themselves on the run, caught between the group that saved them, a competing militia, and the growing infected Hep threat.
Watch the new trailer below:
Pierce directed the film and also wrote it with James Allerdyce. In his director’s statement about Herd, Pierce said,
I grew up in small-town America. I used to joke that my best friend was a rope swing because where I lived was so remote. But we had a tight-knit community of people that deeply cared for each other. To be on the inside and feel that sense of belonging was magically comfortable. But I also saw firsthand what happened to the people on the outside.
When I was 17, one of my close personal friends came out to his parents. They disowned him, throwing him out of their home and forcing him to become fully self-sufficient. Because his orientation was outside of the bounds of our society, he was alone.
As a director, it is my mission to tell the story of small communities clashing with big society, and with Herd, we examine the power of herd mentality and how it can cause good people to do bad things.
Herd uses horror and action in a high-paced love story to engage and entertain. When the film ends, the audience is left to think about when independent thinking takes a back seat to group action, suddenly people begin to condemn and destroy, rather than accept and understand.
Ellen Adair (The Sinner), Mitzi Akaha (Modern Love Tokyo), Jeremy Holm (Black Mold), Amanda Fuller (Starry Eyes), Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), Brandon James Ellis (Iron Fist), Jeremy Lawson (TV’s Walker), Corbin Bernsen (The Dentist), and Timothy V. Murphy (Sons of Anarchy) star in the film.
Herd comes to digital and VOD on October 13, 2023, from Dark Sky Films.
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