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A snow-dusted Oregon town, a boy hiding something in his basement, and Guillermo del Toro’s name attached — the final trailer for “Antlers” just made horror fans’ 2020 watchlist a little scarier.

Fox Searchlight Pictures dropped the final trailer for “Antlers” in December, giving audiences their clearest look yet at the supernatural horror film director Scott Cooper built from Nick Antosca’s short story “The Quiet Boy.” Produced by Guillermo del Toro alongside David S. Goyer and J. Miles Dale, the film pairs del Toro’s creature-driven sensibility with Cooper’s grittier dramatic instincts, the same director behind “Crazy Heart” and “Black Mass.” Fox Searchlight has it booked for theaters on April 17, 2020.

• The trailer centers on schoolteacher Julia Meadows (Keri Russell) and her brother, local sheriff Paul (Jesse Plemons), as they investigate a withdrawn student, Lucas Weaver (Jeremy T. Thomas).
• Lucas is secretly keeping an antlered, ravenous creature locked inside his family’s house and feeding it animal carcasses — a monster rooted in Wendigo mythology.
• The screenplay was co-written by Antosca, C. Henry Chaisson, and Cooper, based on Antosca’s short story “The Quiet Boy,” with the film set for release on April 17, 2020.

Inside Cispus Falls

The story is set in the fictional, damp and decaying Oregon town of Cispus Falls, a setting the trailer uses to full effect — rotted wood, gray skies, and a community already hollowed out before anything supernatural shows up. Julia Meadows returns to town as an elementary school teacher and grows alarmed by Lucas Weaver’s disturbing drawings and stories, which point toward horrific abuse or something far stranger happening at home. When she and her brother Paul, the town sheriff, start pulling on that thread, they find Lucas has been hiding a monstrous, antlered entity inside the family house, feeding it dead animals to keep it contained.

That entity draws directly from Native American Wendigo folklore — a spirit born out of human transgression, starvation, and environmental ruin, and known in legend for an insatiable hunger. The trailer leans hard into that dread, pairing body-horror imagery with the kind of slow-building atmosphere that recalls del Toro’s own creature work on films like “The Shape of Water,” while keeping Cooper’s grounded, blue-collar tone underneath it.

A boy feeding a monster in his basement to keep his family fed — that’s the hook Fox Searchlight is selling on April 17, 2020.

The Cast Carrying the Weight

Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons anchor the film as siblings pulled into the town’s unraveling, with Jeremy T. Thomas making his mark in the pivotal role of Lucas. The supporting cast adds real texture: Graham Greene plays Warren Stokes, Scott Haze plays Frank Weaver, and the ensemble also includes Rory Cochrane and Amy Madigan. Greene’s presence in particular signals the film is treating the Wendigo mythology with some cultural grounding rather than using it purely as set dressing.

The Del Toro-Cooper Pairing

Del Toro’s involvement as producer, alongside “Batman Begins” and “Man of Steel” writer David S. Goyer and producer J. Miles Dale, gives “Antlers” a pedigree horror fans will recognize immediately. Handing directing duties to Scott Cooper is the more interesting swing — Cooper has built his career on somber character dramas, not creature features, and the trailer suggests that background is exactly what keeps “Antlers” from playing like a straightforward monster movie. Antosca, who wrote the original short story “The Quiet Boy” and co-wrote the screenplay with C. Henry Chaisson and Cooper, is also known for the horror anthology series “Channel Zero,” which tracks with the slow-dread tone on display here.

The film arrives during a stretch when horror has been a consistent box-office draw, and Fox Searchlight’s marketing push treats “Antlers” as part of that wave heading into 2020. Readers tracking what else is coming can see how it stacks up against the best upcoming horror movies of 2020 and 2021, and for more on del Toro’s other genre work in the pipeline, there’s also Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans.

Fox Searchlight has “Antlers” locked into theaters for April 17, 2020, putting it in the spring window rather than competing with the fall horror crowd. That date is the one number to remember here — everything in this trailer, the antlers, the carcasses, the Wendigo whispers, is building toward that single release day.