Overview
- Lionsgate released the first trailer on Feb. 18 and confirmed a limited theatrical rollout on March 13.
- Van Der Beek plays a murderous pastor who dominates a secluded gated community after three college students witness a killing.
- The film is being framed as one of the actor’s final screen appearances following his Feb. 11 death at 48 from colorectal cancer.
- Mason Gooding, Algee Smith and Keith Powers star as the trapped students, with John Burr writing and directing.
- The Gates is rated R for violence, language, some sexual references and brief drug use.