A brand new trailer for the LGBTQ physique horror quick “Four Itchy Boys” could depart you scratching on your life.
The spot opens with 4 males strolling by means of a darkish hallway as a feminine narrator says, “It’s a story that will get under your skin.” A bounce minimize reveals one man feverishly scratching the again of his head with a hairbrush after which one other man pulls up his t-shirt to scratch his abdomen. “A condition with no explanation,” the narrator says.
A hand scratching somebody’s again causes bloody tears to the pores and skin.
“Four Itchy Boys,” from author and director Andrew Hebert, tells the story of 4 younger males quarantined for an unexplainable, unrelenting itch as they put together for a livestream to attempt to show that they’re not the monsters everybody thinks they’re. Behind the scenes, a producer is plotting one thing rather more grotesque.
The solid consists of Nico Greetham (“American Horror Story,” “Love, Victor,” “Prom”), Gilberto Ortiz (“Atropia,” “On My Block,” “Pockets of Heaven”), Booboo Stewart (“The Twilight Saga,” “Descendants,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”), Ben Weinswig (“Alone at Dawn,” “Into the Dark,” “Ben’s Sister”), Kim Bonifay (“The Pitt,” “Zoners,” “April X”), Jess Gabor (“Shameless,” “Christy,” “Gringa”) and Luke Barnett (“Dark Winds,” “For All Mankind,” “The Crossing Over Express”).
It was introduced on Monday that “Four Itchy Boys” is an official choice of this yr’s 34th edition of London’s Raindance film Festival in June.
A graduate of NYU Tisch, Hebert is Los Angeles-based and has spent the final decade in movie and TV promoting as a producer and director. He has labored with Jenna Ortega, Billy Eilish, Colman Domingo, Rihanna, Pedro Pascal, Liam Neeson, Kirsten Dunst and Chris Hemsworth.
“Four Itchy Boys” marks Hebert’s return to narrative filmmaking in virtually 10 years.
Watch the trailer for “Four Itchy Boys” beneath.
