UHM is offering a look at the first trailer for the upcoming horror western creature feature BLOODLETTING, starring Graham McTavish (Preacher, House of the Dragon, The Witcher) and based on the book by J.R. Curtis.

BLOODLETTING follows the harrowing journey of three frontiersmen who set out to seek aid at a desolate Army fort after their handcart company becomes stranded and stricken by disease. Harassed on the journey by bandits and a mysterious native, the youngest companion becomes critically injured and a dark and primal creature begins to hunt and torment them. As the group comes to find the fort abandoned and the land cursed by forces both natural and supernatural, the once hopeful shelter becomes a maddening prison. As time passes and they slowly begin to starve, the growing fear and hunger drives them against each other, the worst of their own human natures are realized, and they begin to change…

Directed by Ryan Shelor and Eric Dickinson, the film is said to deliver “psychological, creature, and body horror against a brutal frontier backdrop.” The cast also includes Zack Roerig (The Vampire Diaries), Patrick Kilpatrick (Eraser, Minority Report), Nathan Blair (The Dink) and KateLynn Newberry (Cape Fear, Deathwoods).

The movie’s creature design is being handled by Wayne Anderson, who has worked on a variety of film and television projects, including Stranger Things, It, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Predator and Avatar: The Way of Water.

I’m told that additional shooting is planned to begin this October, with the movie currently expected to hit the festival market in 2027.