The back half of September can only mean one thing: the announcement of a ton of horror films hitting theaters and streaming. It’s the spookiest time of the year, and studios know it, dropping all their best titles when audiences are likely to be searching for them in the first place. That’s certainly the case for Things Will Be Different, a new science-fiction horror film hitting theaters and on-demand on October 4.
The news comes with a trailer, which highlights the dark and foreboding atmosphere created by stars Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy. The logline for the film is as follows:
When estranged siblings Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy) rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time in order to escape the law. Their getaway is derailed when an unknown and cryptic metaphysical force emerges and blocks them from returning home. Trapped on the puzzling plot of land, their captor makes it clear that no one can leave until their deadly demands are met. What results from their entrapment not only bends the forces of spacetime—forcing the two to question everything they know about their own reality—but pushes their familial bonds to the breaking point.
Sci-fi horror is definitely not a new subgenre, but it’s exciting to know that the film comes from writer-director Michael Felker, whose last project involved working with sci-fi savant duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, known for their reality-bending projects like Something in the Dirt and The Endless, as well as fantasy TV projects like Loki and Moon Knight. It’s a good pedigree to come from when it comes to a film that bends the laws of the universe as we know it, and the advance praise the film’s been receiving doesn't hurt either.
Things Will Be Different is executive produced by David Lawson Jr. alongside Benson and Moorhead, with Felker serving as a producer alongside Shane Spiegel and Jacob Rosenthal.
Things Will Be Different arrives in theaters and on VOD on October 4. Check out the trailer below:
