THE SERPENT’S SKIN Red Band Trailer: Love and Dark Magic Collide in a Queer Supernatural Thriller
Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s sixth feature, The Serpent’s Skin, is a supernatural romantic thriller that takes on transphobia in the form of demons. Co-written by the 21-year-old Mackay and longtime collaborator Benjamin Pahl Robinson, it stars Alexandra McVicker, Avalon Fast, Scott Major, Charlotte Chimes, and Jordan Dulieu. Inspired by the witchy horrors of the ’90s, it follows a young transwoman new to the city who falls for a tattoo artist and must fight a demon after accidentally unleashing it. The People’s Joker director Vera Drew edited the film after collaborating with Mackay on her previous features.
Following a festival run that included Frameline, Fantasia Fest, Beyond Fest, and BFI Flare London, Dark Star Pictures will release The Serpent’s Skin in select theaters March 27. Maio Mackay and the cast/crew will appear for opening weekend Q&As in Brooklyn (Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn), The Catskills (Community Theater), San Francisco (Roxie Theater), and Los Angeles (Alamo Drafthouse DTLA and Vidiots).
As the official synopsis reads:
Twentysomething Anna (Alexandra McVicker) leaves her small, transphobic hometown to start a new life in the city with her sister when she quickly finds herself face-to-face with Gen (Avalon Fast), a confident young woman she’d first seen in visions. Gen, Anna learns, has supernatural powers—powers that the two of them share. Their bond of magic and romance is threatened when Gen inadvertently unleashes a demon in Danny (Jordan Dulieu), Anna’s one-time fling and neighbor, and the mysterious evil begins targeting—and feeding on—everyone close to them.
See the red band trailer and poster below.
