
High Ground(2025)
When a mysterious prisoner lands in jail, a border town sheriff faces the wrath of a brutal cartel.


“Choose your prey carefully”
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.

Hermione Corfield
Sawyer

Jay Paulson
Lowell

Sean O'Bryan
Sheriff O'Doyle

Micah A. Hauptman
Hollister

Daniel R. Hill
Buck

Jeremy Glazer
Katz

John Marshall Jones
Slattery

Jake Kidwell
Josh
Virginia Schneider
Donna

Denise Dal Vera
Mrs. Gander
Rust Creek is a thriller, drama, action, crime film released in 2019 exploring themes of sheriff, kentucky, woods, survival, murder, meth lab. Directed by Jen McGowan, it stars Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Sean O'Bryan. When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
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