Primal Darkness (2026)

Primal Darkness is a low-budget American found-footage horror film about Cole Harrington, the host of an outdoor television series who travels to rural Nevada to investigate mysterious cattle attacks. His search becomes more disturbing when he discovers footage connected to two missing university employees.

Dillon Brown writes, directs, photographs and stars in the film, while Maxwell Golden, Blake Hyer, Michael Rock and Dustin Tamplen complete the compact cast. The production embraces folk horror, survival horror and found-footage conventions while keeping its scope deliberately small.

• Written and directed by Dillon Brown.
• Dillon Brown also serves as cinematographer and editor.
• Produced by Horror Dadz Productions.
• The estimated production budget was about $3,000.
• Brown sustained three broken ribs while filming the final scenes, and the take was used in the finished film.