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QUICKSAND Trailer Sinks You Deep Into Danger

Folks keen on more chilling content and are subscribed to AMC’s premium horror streamer, Shudder, can look forward Quicksand, the new English-language Colombian survival thriller coming this summer. The official trailer made its debut this week as well, with a script written by Matt Pitts, and directed by Andrés Beltrán (Tarumama). In Quicksand, an American couple, on the brink of divorce, travel to Colombia for a work conference. While on a hike through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake, in order to escape. Starring Carolina Gaitàn (Encanto) and Allan Hawco (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan). Quicksand will release as a Shudder Original on Shudder beginning July 14, in addition to launching on AMC+ the same day.

Filmmaker Xavier Gens on directing the hit TV series GANGS OF LONDON

Matthew Essary

GANGS OF LONDON, the hit television series from Sky and AMC+, has been rightfully praised for setting a new high watermark for cinematic-style action and mayhem on the small screen. The bulk of that praise has gone to the series creator, writer/director Gareth Evans (THE RAID). This tale of the violent power struggle that occurs when one of the heads of the London underworld is mysteriously gunned down was not solely shepherded through production by Evans though. He shared directing duties equally on the series with two other men, one of those two was French filmmaker Xavier Gens (COLD SKIN). Gens had the unenviable task of directing the three late-season episodes leading up to the season one finale that not only had to bring into focus all of the winding narrative plot threads setup by the earlier episodes, by Evans and fellow series director Corin Hardy (THE HALLOWS), but also […]