What better place to wait out the apocalypse than a cabin in the woods?

In Never Let Go, Helle Berry’s character and her two sons, played by Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins, are doing just that, and more, to avoid the unnamed evils which may or many not stalking her family from their safe haven inside a long cabin. But in an added twist, Berry’s character refuses to let her children untether themselves from her: like an overstretched umbilical cord, her twin sons must tie ropes around their waists connecting them to the cabin – and to her.

Every time the family leaves the cabin, they tie a rope around their waist, and Berry’s character is not above threatening them with dire consequences should they fail to do so. When one of the twins accidentally gets free from the rope, it leads him to question if his mother is telling the truth about what is out there.

The trailer, though, seems to unambiguously indicate that there are some kind of horrible beasties surrounding the cabin – not that trailers can’t be deceiving.

Never Let Go was directed by Alexandre Aja  (The Hills Have Eyes, Crawl) and was written by screenwriters KC Coughlin and Ryan Grassby (The King Tide, Mean Dreams.) Aja produced the film with Dan Cohen, Dan Levine and Shawn Levy (Stranger Things.)

This is Berry’s first feature role since Moonfall came out in 2022.  Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park and Stephanie Lavigne also star.

Never Let Go will hit theaters on September 27th.