With his Devil's Chair fresh off a successful debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, Brit horror director Adam Mason is currently working away in the desert outside LA shooting his third film, Blood River, which reunites him with writer Simon Boyes and star Andrew Howard. Production company Epic Pictures will be launching sales on this new one at the upcoming AFM - where I'm hoping for a first peek at some footage - but in the meanwhile they've just released the first teaser poster.

It's 1969 and Clark and Summer are happily married and she's pregnant. We first meet Summer and Clark as they are driving across California on their way to Arizona to tell Summer's parents the good news about the pregnancy. They drive across the seemingly never ending and desolate desert landscape - they have a blow out. It's a nasty one that sends the car into a massive, near fatal crash. They crawl out of it, hurt but alive, Summer terrified for the well being of her unborn child. The nearest place on the map is the uninviting sounding town of Blood River where they meet a mysterious stranger, Joseph. The clash between Joseph and Clark reaches fever pitch and drives our characters ever closer to a violent, destructive and shocking conclusion that will chill you to the bone.

Blood River is a twisted, manipulative trip into a world of extremes where people are rarely who they seem, where everyone has a secret and where few, if any, will survive.