‘In Our Blood’: Found-Footage Psychological Horror Film Drops Trailer Ahead of October Release
2025’s Spooky Season has just begun, and found-footage fans may rest assured that their horror appetites won’t go unwhetted this year, thanks to In Our Blood. This horror flick, distributed by Utopia and directed by Pedro Kos, actually had its premiere at last year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in July of 2024, but its wide release is scheduled for October 24. The trailer for In Our Blood dropped on September 29, and despite its attempts to remain mostly cryptic, it does spoil one revelation too many.
A Family Reunion Becomes a Very Disturbing Amateur-Detective Tale
Trailer for ‘In Our Blood’, Courtesy of Liberty Films/Utopia
The protagonist of In Our Blood is a young filmmaker named Emily Wyland (Brittany O’Grady), who recruits a cinematographer named Danny Martinez (E.J. Bonilla) to travel with her to a small, remote town to film her reunion with her mother, Sam (Alanna Ubach). The town, called Las Cruces, is a rather desolate-looking Southwestern locale of tent cities, water tanks, and isolated motels.
The opening scene of the trailer for In Our Blood shows Emily and Danny entering what appears to be a hospital to meet with Samantha Wyland. “You can’t have that on in here,” an old woman nervously tells the camera-toting Danny. In another early clip, this same woman wears an incredulous – and perhaps even subtly ominous – smile as she asks the two of them: “So, you’re visiting from out of town?”
We soon learn not only that Emily hasn’t seen her mother in quite some time, but that their relationship years ago was a very fraught one. “Some really dark stuff happened when we were last together,” Emily explains, “But she’s an addict.” Shortly after their arrival in Las Cruces, she and Danny learn that the reunion with her mother may not be as easy as they’d expected or hoped: Sam Wyland seems to have gone missing.
Of course, Emily isn’t about to give up so easily, despite Danny’s apprehensions. “Jeez, Em,” he cautions, “What are we stepping into here?” “I’m trying to figure out whether my mother’s dead!” she replies earnestly. The search leads them to a rundown-looking house, which Emily ventures inside. One look into the bathroom triggers her gag reflex: there’s a very quick shot showing a bloody pig’s head (which a rat is feeding on) in the tub. As corpse discoveries in horror films go, the one in In Our Blood certainly could have been worse, but it’s hard to deny that this mystery is still taking a very sinister turn.
The Mystery Isn’t Kept Quite Mysterious Enough
In the clip that immediately follows, the trailer for In Our Blood oversteps slightly into unseemly spoiler territory. Over a shot of Emily entering some kind of pig-pen room, we hear someone (probably the old woman from before) saying: “Complex system for harvesting the most vulnerable.” Then, the trailer immediately cuts to Emily looking at a wall covered with news bulletins. There’s a closeup that allows us to read one headline: “Homeless Man’s Body Discovered in Downtown Las Cruces.”
Obviously, it would appear, the grotesque conspiracy afoot involves targeting the homeless and the addicted – including Emily’s mother – to exploit them like livestock, possibly for organ harvesting or for use in some strange ritual. Late in the trailer, an indeterminate character played by Steven Klein declares: “But they can’t hide from me, and they can’t hide from Jesus.” Is he a righteous citizen or a member of some local cult who intends to go after Emily and Danny? We may be thankful that this question remains unanswered.
Still a Found-Footage Flick with Great Potential
Overall, In Our Blood still looks like a film with plenty to recommend about it, and the trailer’s lapse is a slight one; there’s still a good amount that remains unrevealed. Low-budget horror films are seldom known for stellar acting, but O’Grady and Bonilla both appear to hold their own pretty well, based on their dialogue and expressions in the clips shown.
The director, Pedro Kos, has a lot of experience with making documentaries; his 2021 Netflix documentary short Lead Me Home (which he co-directed with Jon Shenk) received an Oscar nod for Best Documentary Short Subject. In Our Blood is his feature non-documentary film debut, and since it premiered at the Fantasia Festival a year ago, its trailer comes adorned with rave-review blurbs. If your taste in the horror genre runs to the pseudo-documentary subgenre, In Our Blood certainly looks worth checking out.
