Overview
- The official trailer for Never After Dark premiered Thursday and was debuted by Variety before circulating widely on genre sites.
- Stephen King called the film “amazing and haunting” and director Scott Derrickson praised it as “intelligent, unpredictable and bone chilling,” comments featured in the trailer rollout.
- Dave Boyle wrote and directed the Japanese supernatural horror and the film centers on Airi, a wandering medium who faces a grotesque force in an isolated country house.
- Never After Dark won the Overlook Film Festival grand jury prize on the festival circuit and Magnolia Pictures has scheduled a U.S. theatrical release for Sept. 25, 2026.
- The cast includes Moeka Hoshi and Kurumi Inagaki and the marketing is positioning the film within a renewed U.S. appetite for Japanese horror during the fall season.