As the trailer states, the film will premiere on February 3, 2023. The movie was originally supposed to be released on February 17th, but the release date was pushed up by two weeks. Shyamalan stated that this was the fastest turnover for any script he has ever written, and that production and filming went by in a flash between April 19th and June 10th, of this year. Fans of anthologies and Christmastime horror get ready for Night of the Missing, which follows a series of disappearances that take place in a small town. It’s a great question. In the late ’80s, nuclear war was one of my biggest fears and something that still really upsets me. I can’t usually watch movies or read books that involve that, because it’s too much for me. Part of Cabin was my fear of the apocalypse. The reason I wanted to leave [the ending] ambiguous was to reinforce the idea that, “Hey, every time you turn on the TV or look at your phone, or look at your feed, it feels like the world is ending.” This is just how we live. Much like the trailer before it, the poster finds us once again at the titular cabin, as Bautista and his small crew of cult followers ready themselves for what they must do. Wielding large weapons, the imposing figures transform the scenic location into something far more terrifying.

Paul Tremblay, author of the source novel, Cabin at the End of the World, commented of this poster for the film, “I dig it. Can’t help but feel like there’s something missing…” It's a truly quirky film, pretty much as you'd expect, it's fairly well paced, has a degree of tension, it just manages to be so different. From award-winning filmmaker Samuel Gonzalez Jr. ( The Retaliators) and the producers of The Gallows, Night of the Missing is a four-part holiday anthology that could best be described as a twisted take on “A Christmas Carol.”

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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.

On a stormy Christmas Eve, a secretive sheriff gets a visit from a mysterious woman who recounts a series of bizarre stories involving missing persons. As her stories begin to unfold, the depraved deeds of the sleepy town find themselves coming to life; conjuring vibrations of a disturbing telephone call, a mysterious ice cream man, a missing friend, and broken promises with dire repercussions. I honestly would have to look at my contract to see if I have any say. Typically, I don’t. I would get certain money if there’s a sequel. But I’m not a series or sequel person. Speaking with Empire for the magazine's January 2023 issue ( now on sale), Shyamalan recalled how he decided to cast Bautista in the leading antagonist role after seeing his brief performance as Sapper Morton in Blade Runner 2049. "There was a sadness coming off him that was a complete contradiction to the 300-pound of muscle that was standing there," the filmmaker said of the wrestler-turned-actor. "I'd never seen this kind of vulnerability in someone who looks like that." Harrison, Alexander (May 6, 2022). "M. Night Shyamalan's New Movie Will Have An Old School Thriller Look". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022 . Retrieved May 6, 2022.M. Night has talked fairly openly about how once he read that she died, he was like, “No, I can’t. That’s it.” For him, the stakes weren’t there any more—I felt the stakes were there. For me, one of the points behind her awful, accidental death, is that it makes the decision harder for both sides. In the book, the invaders that are left are horrified about: What is it that we’re doing if her death doesn’t count as a sacrifice?

I always like to think about how I'd feel in the position of a film's central character, and seeing if from Eric's point of view, you'd surely be thinking it was a set up, and that someone from the past had set up an elaborate hoax, the alternative is too terrible even to contemplate. The television is an eighth member of the cast, fulfilling its cultural form by reporting on global disasters which may or may not be happening in the outside world. This ambiguity is given particular force by today’s “fake news”, “post truth” politics. Are the imputed prophetic events really happening, and even if they are, did the visitors really share prophetic visions of them? We are put in the position of the two parents, of not entirely being sure – did a concussed Eric really see a vision of God in the light pouring through a window? His husband is not at all sure, and he is aware that his partner is of Christian faith and may be prone to seeing signs passing as wonders. Donna Langley, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg and Pearlena Igbokwe Named to Variety Power of Women in Hollywood 2023 Below, Tremblay chats with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed about why he prefers his original ending, the omission of his name in the film’s promotional material, and what’s really the biggest difference between his and Shyamalan’s adaptation of the source material.Couch, Aaron (February 16, 2023). "M. Night Shyamalan Departs Universal for Warner Bros. First-Look Deal". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved April 19, 2023. Night of the Missing is gory, frightening, and able to meld these differing stories into a wonderfully disturbing narrative! Leonard and his companions—Sabrina, Adriane, and Redmond—claim that they have no intention of harming the family. However, in the past week, they have been driven by visions to find the family. They foresee an impending apocalypse in which oceans will rise, a pandemic will spread, and the sky will fall. The only way to prevent this is for the family to sacrifice one of their own. If they do not make a choice, they will be the last people standing. The character Redmond in the book [ Rupert Grint in the film] is really—in anything I’ve written, I usually don’t have “villains,” I usually try to make [readers] empathize with them. You want to understand why they’re doing what they’re doing. Redmond’s probably the only all bad, mustache-twisting villain that I’ve ever written.