Sales art for Bryan Bertino’s There Are Monsters, starring Elisabeth Moss

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

I was a big fan of director Bryan Bertino's 2008 home invasion horror flick THE STRANGERS and over the weekend I checked out his very solid (and unnerving) found footage flick MOCKINGBIRD, so in this guy's opinion Bertino is batting .1000 so far. For those like myself who are curious to see what kind of other horror treats Bertino has in store for us, it seems that we won't have as long of a wait between projects as we now have the first sales art for the upcoming THERE ARE MONSTERS, which will be presented at next month's American Film Market.

Back in May we learned that "Mad Men" actress Elisabeth Moss had been cast in THERE ARE MONSTERS, which concerns a single mom and her terrified young daughter who are trapped and tormented by a mysterious creature. Now we've learned a little more about the film with a slightly more detailed synopsis along with the first sales art below.

“From the creator of The Strangers comes a world of the lost; freezing spitting needles of rain, thunderbolt lightning, hypothermic cold and disorientating utter darkness.

Mother and daughter trapped and tormented in a black forest by a screeching creature – it is unlike anything we have heard before. Not human. Not animal. Like a thousand horses, like a mother’s clamour, a baby’s wail, a father’s howl.

Their relationship at breaking point, 10-year-old Lizzy is all out of faith in her mother Kathy (Elisabeth Moss) but tries to stay brave and fearless. Kathy, on the edge, barely keeping it together, knows that only a mother’s protective love, her most primal instinct, can save her daughter from what’s lurking in the darkness…“

I'm stoked about seeing more from Bertino and THERE ARE MONSTERS sounds like it could be a scary good time. More on this one as we hear it.