Dark Star Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for The A-Frame, a goopy sci-fi horror movie that experiments with a new dimension poised to unleash unspeakable horror.
The sci-fi thriller hits theaters on July 25, followed by a Digital release on August 5.
In The A-Frame, “A quantum physicist develops a machine that creates a tunnel to a sub-atomic parallel universe. In his quest to prove the machine’s efficacy, he inadvertently discovers an unorthodox cancer treatment when transporting lab rats interdimensionally. He now recruits human subjects to legitimize his efforts.”
The setup for writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder’s dark, goopy sci-fi horror comedy The A-Frame adheres to the time-honored tradition of ambitious scientists unleashing grotesque horrors when dabbling with unknown realities beyond our own.
Johnny Whitworth (Empire Records, Limitless), Nik Dodani (The Parenting), and Dana Namerode (What Josiah Saw) star in The A-Frame.
Reeder’s film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. I wrote in my review, “Reeder focuses on character work first and foremost to ensure its final punchline lands- and it does. But when Reeder does let the horror loose, the practical effects more than make up for the wait. The A-Frame brings the appropriate level of viscera, slime, and goop. The A-Frame doesn’t quite do enough to avoid direct comparisons to films like The Fly or From Beyond, but it is a quick, mean, and gruesome morality play with a perfect ending that’ll leave you in stitches or reaching for the barf bag. Likely both.”
Perhaps more importantly, it’s a goopy, gory sci-fi horror movie that employs practical effects. “We never saw this film without some practical elements,” Reeder previously told BD. “I would also say that our VFX digital elements are working in perfect unison with them, so we really rely on both heavily, and that’s always how I feel like you get the best result. But yes, practical, as long as we can continue to get away with it as filmmakers, before AI steals everything from us, but for now we want to hire as much practical effects and put that in front of the audience. The audience deserves it, but the audience also deserves really cool VFX, too.”
While the trippy new trailer below withholds the gory surprises, the film’s poster calibrates expectations for a fun Cronenbergian film ahead.
