First-look images, a trailer, and a poster have been released for Silt, the psychological horror thriller starring Olivia Grace Applegate (Love and Death), Malcolm Goodwin (Reacher), Andrea Sixtos (Arrow), David Anders (Alias, Heroes), Tommy Wiseau (The Room, Big Shark), Krishna Smitha (Silicon Valley), Vernon Davis (The Ritual Killer).
The ensemble cast—which also includes Michael Papajohn, Isaiah LaBorde, and Ledger LaBorde—will hit the road in October and November for a series of special screenings across the country, with stops planned in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, and Dallas.
Directed by Aaron Jay Rome (End Trip), Silt is a chilling psychological horror thriller that follows a fractured group of friends who reunite for a weekend retreat at an exclusive lakeside sanctuary, where old wounds and dark secrets resurface.
In the vein of Talk to Me and The Invitation, the story is by Davis and Tiffany Toney and adapted for the screen by Rome and Isaiah LaBorde.
The synopsis reads:
Hadria (Sixtos), a woman haunted by guilt she cannot explain, is talked into a weekend at an exclusive lakeside sanctuary by her best friend Sierra (Applegate) and Sierra’s boyfriend Scott (Anders). She has never warmed to the hosts, Rick (Goodwin) and Anna (Smitha), but she goes for a shot at something with Mike Warner (Davis), a pro athlete sidelined by a knee injury.
The property sits behind three locked gates, where hundreds of deer assemble; watching. The lake comes with lore, the kind that makes a good firepit story, and Bartleby (Wiseau), the eccentric owner, tells them it carries the genes of the Gods. Hadria doesn’t buy any of it, right up until the water starts proving Bertleby right.
Rome said, “Silt presented an interesting opportunity to explore the things we do—and don’t—tell the people closest to us. On its face, it has all the makings of the familiar cabin-in-the-woods trope, but I was interested in subverting that expectation by bringing something cosmic and universal into what could otherwise feel like a recycled idea. At its core, it’s a movie about the unreliability of the human mind, the Monkey’s Paw effect of things that appear miraculous on the surface but carry consequences unknowable to us, and the lengths we’ll go to get something we desperately want.”
He added, “I’m eager for audiences to predict where the movie is going, be inevitably wrong, and then immediately tell their friends and family they need to see it too. It’s a lot of fun, the performances are incredible, and more than anything, I hope it leads to long conversations on the drive home from the theater.”
Davis produced the project under his Real 85 Productions banner alongside Rome and LaBorde. Davis also served as executive producer.
The film’s editor was Ryan Dufrene, who previously created animated and motion graphics for major Hollywood studios and high-profile projects, including Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables.
