As if the entire history of horror hasn’t proved to us that isolated cabins in the middle of the woods are nothing but a recipe for disaster — whether it’s the shack from Evil Dead or the palatial condo from Companion — there’s a new indie horror coming soon that’s set to make its own unique mark on the subgenre. We now have a trailer for Our Happy Place, about a woman who not only ends up isolated in the woods, but wakes up there every morning, as though the forest is slowly drawing her in.
The film is written and directed by Paul Bickel, who also stars in the film alongside Tracie Thoms and Raya Miles, who both serve as producers. The film’s logline is as follows:
Raya wakes in the forest, cold and confused, with no memory of how she got there. Each day, it happens again. By the third day, she wakes in a shallow grave. The graves deepen each time, as if an unseen force is burying her alive. Back in her cabin, she’s haunted by visions of tortured women whose screams echo in her mind. Night after night, her visions intensify, blurring the line between dream and reality. As the hauntings intensify, Raya must confront a horrifying truth that shatters everything she had believed.
Our Happy Place is Bickel’s debut feature film, after directing the short films Hollow and Turning Japanese. While the film has not yet set a release date, audience members in Los Angeles can experience the film tomorrow night when the film screens as part of the Hollywood Reel Independent Festival, at 7:30PM PT at the Regal Cinema in Downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for the screening (and the entire festival) can be purchased through Eventbrite.
Our Happy Place does not yet have a release date. Check out the trailer below:
