Horror movies have often featured religious figures in saviour roles but
writer/director Matt McClung flips the script with
Inhabitants. The villain of McClung's film is the ghost of a pastor who takes a
dislike to one of his former childhood parishioners entering a relationship
outside of marriage and begins to terrorise him from beyond the grave.
The film stars Anna Jacoby-Heron, Josh Andrés Rivera, Ana Auther and
Kevin Nealon.
Inhabitants is on US VOD from February 14th. A UK/ROI
release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Olivia Burton, 23, moves to California with her boyfriend - Francis Morales, 24 - going against the wishes of their respective family members. Francis’s mother, Lillian, is a devout Catholic who disapproves of her son’s cohabitation and makes her feelings known in the form of violent, religiously themed postcards. Despite these objections, the young lovers settle into their new, exciting life together. Their bliss is interrupted, however, after a freak accident leaves Francis physically and mentally wounded. Soon, he’s suffering from night terrors - whispering in his sleep to a figure Olivia cannot see and sleepwalking to strange corners of the house. These episodes frighten Olivia and also suggest that Francis may be hiding something from her. Her investigation leads to a terrifying and perverse discovery; they are being haunted by the ghost of Francis’s childhood youth minister - an entity who is enraged by their cohabitation and has come to punish them for their sins.
