Netflix just rolled out their fall genre film lineup for 2019, and one of the big titles on the roster is Rattlesnake, the new psychological horror movie from 1922 director Zak HilditchCarmen Ejogo stars as Katrina, a single mother driving cross country to start a new life with her daughter (Apollonia Pratt) when their car breaks down smack in the middle of nowhere and Clara gets bit by a rattlesnake. Desperate to save her daughter's life, Katrina accepts the help of a mysterious woman who saves Clara's life, but Katrina quickly learns nothing comes without a cost when she learns she has to kill a stranger in exchange for the life that was saved.

With his bleak and brutal Stephen King adaptation 1922, Hilditch established a unique horror tone that digs into the darkest corners of human psychology, madness, and the capacity for violence, which makes this story sound like a natural fit. Additionally, Ejogo is a fantastic actor and I can't wait to see her get put through the emotional and ethical Olympics this story demands of her character.

Also starring Theo Rossi and Emma GreenwellRattlesnake drops on Netflix on October 25th. For mojre on Rattlesnake check out the official Netflix page and the Netflix and Chills horror section.

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Check out the official synopsis below:

Katrina (Carmen Ejogo) is a single mother driving cross country to start a new life with her young daughter Clara (Apollina Pratt) when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. As Katrina changes the tire, Clara wanders off the desert road and is bitten by a venomous rattlesnake. Desperate to save her daughter’s life, Katrina accepts the help of a mysterious woman, but after she miraculously heals Clara, Katrina is asked to repay the good deed by killing a stranger in exchange for the life saved. Without time to lose, she must wrestle with the morality of who deserves to live and who should die, before her daughter’s life is once again put in peril at sundown. RATTLESNAKE is a pulse-pounding, psychological horror film directed by Zak Hilditch (1922, These Final Hours), also starring Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy, Marvel’s Luke Cage) and Emma Greenwell (Shameless, Love & Friendship, The Rock), and produced by Ross Dinerstein (1922, The Package, 6 Balloons).