Soldiers square off against a horde of creatures in Neil Marshall’s Afghanistan-set horror movie.
“And all hell breaks loose.”
The director came up with the initial idea for the film after the start of the pandemic.
Charlotte Kirk in The Lair.RLJE Films
Somehow or other it ended up being in Afghanistan with Russian bunkers and monsters.
I just have this inability to write a low-budget script and stick to it.
It invariably gets way more ambitious.
Poster for The Lair.RLJE Films
I guess that’s just in my nature."
The director wound up making the movie in Budapest with a cast that also included Jamie Bamberand Jonathan Howard.
“The shoot was tough,” says Marshall.
“We ended up shooting in these quarries.
It was in the height of summer and it was 40-degree heat centigrade.
Very humid, very hot, very dusty.
So it was kind of grueling at times.
Marshall’s efforts paid off when the film premiered at London’sFrightFestin August.
“Oh, it was great,” says the director.
The Lairwill be released by RLJE Films in theaters, on demand, and digital Oct. 28.
The film will screen onShudderin early 2023.
Exclusively watch the trailer forThe Lairbelow and see the movie’s poster above.
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