“American Horror Story” star Sarah Paulson is stepping back into the 1930s for the horror thriller Hold Your Breath, set in Oklahoma during the devastating Dust Bowl era. The trailer reveals a chilling, gritty story about a mother’s drive and desperation to protect her children.
Paulson plays Margaret, a grieving mother convinced that a sinister presence threatens her family. As she grapples with her loss and tries to protect her daughter, the Dust Bowl’s harsh conditions only intensify the mounting terror.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Annaleigh Ashford, Amiah Miller, and Bill Heck star alongside Paulson. Will Joines and Karrie Crouse (“Westworld”) co-directed and co-wrote the film.
Sarah Paulson had this to say to People about the film:
“It is really, at its core, an emotional story about a woman who is desperate to keep her children safe,” Paulson, who also executive produces, said. “When you’re talking about a descent into madness, potentially, you always think about control and some of what happens when the spiral starts to unspool. The minute Margaret can no longer stop the dust from getting inside the house, the minute she can no longer feed her family because the cows got nothing to eat, the more things get more desperate and desperate and scarier and scarier for her in terms of their survival — and the more unhinged she becomes because she can’t do anything about it.”
Initially announced in 2022 under the title Dust, Hold Your Breath premieres exclusively on October 3 on Hulu from Searchlight.
