'Empty Man': 20th Century Studios Releases First Trailer For New Horror That Comes Out In A Week

Two strange things are going on in the theatrical industrial complex. One: the largest global theater group, the executive committee of the Global Cinema Federation, have been begging New York state governor Andrew Cuomo to reopen New York state theaters (though last time we checked the global box office is not dependent on New York and the suggestion that New York leads the entire global box office and its nothing without it, is something that would surely be offensive to most of these regional theaters chains without a pandemic). Two: Movie studios like 20th Century Studios are pulling strange fast ones like dropping a trailer and promotion for a horror thriller like “The Empty Man” all of one week before the movie is dumped into whatever theaters are open (in fact, the movie just received its release date yesterday).

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A supernatural horror film, “The Empty Man” is directed by David Prior (“2008AM1200,” and a lot of behind-the-scenes making-of documentaries for David Fincher) and is about an ex-cop, on the trail of a missing girl, who comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity. The horror stars James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root, Ron Canada, Robert Aramayo, Joel Courtney, and Sasha Frolova. Here’s the official synopsis:

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20th Century Studios’ “The Empty Man” is a supernatural horror film based on a popular series of Boom! Studios graphic novels. After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger. Directed by David Prior from a screen story and screenplay by David Prior based on the graphic novel by Cullen Bunn, “The Empty Man” stars James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root, Ron Canada, Robert Aramayo, Joel Courtney, and Sasha Frolova. The film is produced by Ross Richie, p.g.a. and Stephen Christy, p.g.a.

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“The Empty Man” lands in theaters in one week, October 23 wherever theaters are actually open. Here’s the first trailer, watch it below.