Patrick Fugit is On the Hunt for Blood in ‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’ [Trailer]

Written and directed by Jonathan Cuartas, the festival horror-drama My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To has been acquired by Dark Sky Films, and we’ve learned today that they’ll be releasing it in limited theaters and on VOD/Digital this summer, on June 25.

“As an official selection of the previously cancelled 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, the film will also have a special screening at this year’s 2021 Tribeca Festival on June 12th.”

“Dwight (Patrick Fugit) prowls the streets after dark. He searches each night for the lonely and forlorn, looking for people who won’t be missed. Dwight takes no joy in this, but he needs their blood. Without fresh human blood, his fragile young brother Thomas cannot survive. Each death takes a larger toll, the burden of his crimes weighing heavier each time, threatening to crack his spirit. But Thomas (Owen Campbell) and his sister Jessie (Ingrid Sophie Schram) are all the family Dwight has left, and as a fiercely private and close-knit family unit, they depend on him and the rituals they’ve learned in order to keep their secret. But while Dwight yearns for another life, Jessie needs them to stay together. And always the boy must feed.”

Check out the trailer below, along with images and poster art.