Director Travis Stevens looks to continue his run in the horror genre with A Wounded Fawn. The film recently released a trailer, giving audiences a glimpse of the terror that awaits. Josh Ruben stars as Bruce Ernst, a serial killer who targets women with his charm and eye for art. However, everything may not be what it seems as the trailer unfolds. Cults? Ghosts? Insane murderers? A Wounded Fawn may leave you with more questions than answers after a first look.
Stevens is known for his work in horror, as the filmmaker has previous experience directing with Girl on the Third Floor and Jakob's Wife. He also wrote the script for A Wounded Fawn alongside Nathan Faudree. The brand-new trailer for the Shudder original can be found below.
Ruben plays the killer, but is he the most evil entity in A Wounded Fawn? The film starts with his character killing an unsuspecting victim, but who are the strange-looking, masked characters who continue to pop up toward the second half of the trailer? The official synopsis for the Shudder movie reads:
"A Wounded Fawn follows the story of Meredith Tanning, a local museum curator who is dipping her toe back into the dating pool, only to be targeted by a charming serial killer. When a fateful romantic getaway between the two becomes a tense game of cat and mouse, both must confront the madness within him."
A Wounded Fawn stars Sarah Lind alongside Ruben, with Malin Barr, Katie Kuang, Laksmi Priyah Hedemark, Tanya Everett, Marshall Taylor Thurman, Neal Mayer, Nikki James, and Leandro Taub rounding out the cast. Fans don't need to wait too long to find out what's happening in this cabin in the woods, as A Wounded Fawn is streaming exclusively on Shudder next month, debuting Dec. 1.
Travis Stevens Reveals His Intentions With A Wounded Fawn
A Wounded Fawn begins to look like the typical charming guy-serial killer movie at the start of the trailer. However, it quickly turns into something much more as the disturbing images flash on screen throughout the first preview. Director Travis Stevens spoke with Soundstripe and revealed his inspiration for the film and why he wanted to stray away from the familiar horror tropes in A Wounded Fawn.
"So the original script that had come to me had the basic premise of a serial killer and a woman going on a date in this cabin. I had already sort of done a couple of films which explore different 'bad men', so I was like — 'what can I do with this?' I wanted to find something a little bit different with this one. So that was my inspiration. I really liked looking outside the story and into this surrealist art movement where there were so many parallels there in how so many male artists would draw inspiration (and seep the energy) from the female members of the movement, which I found to be similar to what a serial killer does to his victims. Once I started on that thread it was just fun to try to bring some of that same imagery from different surrealist paintings to life and as a way to help approach this project differently from the ones I’d done before.
Stevens' latest film could go down as his best if the recent trailer is any indication. A Wounded Fawn looks to truly terrify its audience with crazy twists and turns throughout the story leading to a horrifying slasher. Audiences can see how disturbing events go down when A Wounded Fawn is released on Shudder on Dec. 1.