Shawn Ashmore and Elizabeth Mitchell star in grim new indie thriller The Huntsman, and the primary trailer has been launched, courtesy of Epic Photos. The movie is positioning itself as a psychological crime thriller with serial killer overtones. Sadly, the trailer doesn’t precisely promote confidence.
The Huntsman facilities on a withdrawn ICU nurse, performed by Shawn Ashmore, who volunteers to learn to a person recovering from a coma. That affected person, portrayed by Garret Dillahunt, occurs to be the prime suspect within the brutal murders of six younger ladies in a small southwestern city.
What begins as a quiet act of compassion rapidly spirals into one thing darker as secrets and techniques pile up and motives blur. Dillahunt’s character is accused of being a modern-day serial killer often called “The Huntsman,” a nickname impressed by the Snow White fairy story.
His spouse, performed by Elizabeth Mitchell, refuses to imagine he’s able to the crimes and finds herself drowning within the rising contradictions of the investigation.
In the meantime, a decided detective, performed by Jessy Schram, races to piece collectively the reality earlier than the physique rely rises even greater. With a number of suspects and shifting views, the story goals for a twisting descent into obsession and deception.
The movie is customized from the novel of the identical identify by Judith Sanders, and is directed by Kyle Kauwika Harris, whose earlier work consists of The Water Hole, Out of Exile, and Reverence. Harris additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Steven Jon Whritner. The solid is rounded out by Brent Bailey and Maddison Bullock.
The trailer itself is a troublesome promote. It’s murky, underlit, and flat, providing little stress or environment to make the thriller really feel compelling. Moderately than teasing a disturbing psychological trip, it performs like one other immediately forgettable direct-to-VOD thriller that blends into the background of the streaming pile.
Epic Photos will launch The Huntsman in choose US theaters on February sixth, 2026, adopted intently by a VOD launch on February tenth.
