SHADOWS OF WILLOW CABIN Release News
‘Scares some life into the haunted cabin genre with a fresh, queer twist… Joe Fria has crafted a chilling tale… both universally horrifying and deeply personal’ Queerty
Buried traumas transform into physical phantoms in Shadows of Willow Cabin. Actor – turned writerdirector – Joe Fria (Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, The Belko Experiment) masterfully merges queer romance with supernatural horror in his feature debut to craft a moody, intimate and chilling feature that unfolds like a dark fever dream.
Following its international premiere at Grimmfest 2025, Shadows of Willow Cabin arrives on UK digital on 25 May, courtesy of GrimmVision.
Albert (Bryan Bellomo), a closeted husband and Devon (John Brodsky), a wounded soul, retreat to a remote mountain cabin to explore a connection sparked by a string of sexually charged messages on a dating app. What begins as tentative desire soon deepens into intimacy, but the cabin has other plans…
As the walls whisper with voices they thought had been silenced, the cabin comes to life, trapping the couple
in a supernatural loop where time fractures, ghosts manifest, and their repressed traumas take terrifying forms.
With reality unravelling and survival at stake, they must confront their darkest secrets – and each other – before the cabin consumes them forever.
Discover what lurks in the Shadows of Willow Cabin in this unnerving tale of identity, survival and love in the face of exile.
On digital 25 May
