Cold Storage looks like it will be perfect Valentine’s Day counterprogramming when it hits theaters this week. It’s a sci-fi horror comedy about co-workers at a storage facility who discover a parasitic fungus has invaded—and gross-out terror follows. io9 has an exclusive clip to share today, which features Stranger Things‘ Joe Keery (with very un-Steve Harrington hair) and Barbarian‘s Georgina Campbell making a rather rancid discovery.
What the hell is a rat king? Watch and learn.
Cold Storage comes from screenwriter David Koepp—adapting his 2019 novel of the same name here, but also known for scripting Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as Spider-Man, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Jurassic World Rebirth, among many others.
Koepp is also a director (Stir of Echoes, Secret Window), but Cold Storage is helmed by Jonny Campbell (whose resume includes episodes of Doctor Who and Westworld).
Here’s the full synopsis:
“Teacake (Joe Keery) and Naomi (Georgina Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old U.S. military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants—human and otherwise.
With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative (Liam Neeson), to contain the merciless menace and prevent the explosive extinction of mankind itself.”
We love a “night shift gone wrong thanks to weird old military tech” story—major Return of the Living Dead vibes, except with out-of-control mutant organisms rather than out-of-control brain-chomping zombies.
Liam Neeson is also in this cast, as are Sosie Bacon (Smile), Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave, and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville. However, we’re most interested to see the critter co-stars, based on the rat-infested special effects in the above clip.
All will be revealed in what looks like a pleasingly splattery fashion when Cold Storage hits theaters Friday, February 13.
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