Check out the trailer for A Cold Season. Available November 10, 2026.
The film stars Andrew Hunsicker, Julie Chapin, Paul Monte Jr., Elijah Santoro, Frank Volpe, Daijah Lilly, Cait Wiley, Elizabeth Gehman, Jake Hunsicker, Christian Jude Grillo. Christian Jude Grillo writes and directs.
The third feature from writer/director Christian Jude Grillo and producer Andrew Hunsicker transforms Pennsylvania’s snow-covered mountains into the backdrop for a dark story of grief, isolation, murder and a fractured mind. PENNSYLVANIA — August 2026 — Intruder Films announces the November 10, 2026 release of A Cold Season, a new psychological horror feature written and directed by Christian Jude Grillo and produced by Andrew Hunsicker.
Released domestically by MVD Entertainment Group, the Christmas-set thriller follows an isolated man whose quiet winter existence conceals something far darker as grief, murder and a mysterious double increasingly blur the boundary between reality and madness. The film marks the third feature completed by Grillo and Hunsicker through Pennsylvania-based Intruder Films in just over two years, following the science-fiction horror film Intruder and psychological thriller Neighbor.
OFFICIAL LOGLINE: A lonely man’s quiet winter routine hides a string of killings that spiral out of control when his dark double urges him toward madness.
ABOUT A COLD SEASON
Set during Christmas amid the stark beauty of Pennsylvania’s snow-covered mountains, A Cold Season is a character-driven psychological horror film exploring grief, isolation, guilt and the dangerous stories people can create when reality becomes too painful to confront. At the center of the film is a lonely man living an increasingly isolated existence as winter closes in around him. What initially appears to be a quiet life begins revealing something much darker: a string of killings, a deteriorating grip on reality and a sinister double who seems determined to push him further toward violence and madness. The result is a psychological horror story in which the audience is continually forced to question what is real, what exists only inside the protagonist’s mind—and whether there is still a meaningful distinction between the two.
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