The Orchard Prey on Christopher Denham’s “Preservation”

After collecting film fest preems at Tribeca Film Festival and Fantasia, writer-director Christopher Denham’s sophomore film has landed a sweet deal with The Orchard. Deadline reports that Preservation will open in a 10-market theatrical run along with digital, cable, home video, and satellite premiere in January.

Gist: This is about Wit (Wrenn Schmidt), an anesthesiologist who sets out on a hunting expedition to a forest preserve with her husband (Aaron Staton), a hedge fund manager, and her ex-marine brother, Sean (Pablo Schreiber). When both are captured, Wit has to unleash her animal instincts to avoid being the next prey.

Worth Noting: Home Movie, Denham’s 2008 found footage film got picked up for VOD release via IFC Films.

Do We Care?: We’re not entirely sure how this measures up in the city folk fighting for survivial in the woods horror subgenre, but this is strategically being fitted for a January release — where low budget indie horror-thriller fare tend to do well at the beginning of the year.