One for the Road Teaser Trailer Previews Horror Short Based on Stephen King Story

Ahead of its world premiere, the One for the Road teaser trailer for the upcoming horror short movie has been released. The film will be based on Stephen King‘s short story of the same name, which was published in 1978 as part of his Night Shift novella.

“When a stranger ambles into a roadside diner in the dead of night, two friendly Samaritans prove no good deed goes unpunished,” reads the short film’s synopsis. “One for the Road is the story of two movers who reluctantly help a waitress deal with a stranger in the dead of night. The tropes are well known: a diner, a stranger looking for help, a stranded car in the desert. But the story is only about these tropes on the surface — it’s really a reflection of one of the biggest moral dilemmas of our time: Should we take the risk of helping someone we don’t know, or is it better to mind our own business?”

Check out the One for the Road teaser trailer below (watch more trailers):

When is the release date for One for the Road?

One for the Road will have its world premiere on Sunday, July 21, at the LA Shorts Film Festival, which serves as the longest-running short film festival in Los Angeles. The film is directed by Daniel Carsenty from a screenplay written by Corey Slater. The short stars Alexander Flores, Katie Adler, Travis Hammer, Lisa Goodman, Elester Latham, and Richard Clarke Larson.

“Night Shift is Stephen King’s first collection of short stories–a perfect showcase of just how far King’s dark imagination can go. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best,” says the official description for the novella the story is from.