It’s not that unusual for a director or author to additionally star within the film they director or wrote. What’s much less widespread, by far, is when writer-director additionally performs the horrifying monster of their film—however that’s the case with Death Valley, Matthew Ninaber’s new sci-fi horror film coming to Shudder subsequent month. The trailer is right here and it’s stuffed with hat-tips to Alien, but in addition loads of its personal gory goodness.

Ninaber, whose performing credit embody Psycho Goreman (by which he performed the title character—who additionally occurs to be a horrifying monster), directs a solid that additionally consists of his brother, Jeremy Ninaber, together with Ethan Mitchell and Kristen Kaster.

Here’s the synopsis shared by Shudder: “When a secret experiment goes horribly wrong, bioengineer Dr. Chloe (Kaster) becomes trapped inside a secret underground facility. With only 24 hours before a fatal decontamination protocol destroys the entire lab, Chloe deploys an emergency distress signal before a terrifying creature (Matthew Ninaber) of unknown origin can consume what’s left of her. Alerted by the distress beacon, battle-weary guns for hire Marshall (Mitchell) and Beckett (Jeremy Ninaber) are commissioned to carry out a covert operation to extract the imprisoned scientist. Upon deployment, the team is ambushed by another heavily armed militia hell-bent on finding a way into the compound themselves.

Severely outnumbered, the mercenaries find entry to the bunker through an unsealed emergency hatch only to find themselves in a horrific fight for survival. With time and ammunition running out, the team must locate Dr. Chloe while also navigating the underground maze of corridors before they’re hunted down one by one.”

So… principally Alien mashed up with Aliens however going down in a secret underground lab—and with a competing navy outfit to deliver much more chaos to all that running-around-and-hiding-from-a-monster enterprise. Definitely promising! Death Valley arrives on Shudder December 9.

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