A lake that local legend says carries the genetic material of gods, and Tommy Wiseau owns the shoreline. Silt put out its first trailer on Tuesday, and director Aaron Jay Rome is taking the film out through Demand the Screen with special screenings in eight cities across October and November.
Andrea Sixtos plays Hadria, who arrives at the retreat with her best friend Sierra (Olivia Grace Applegate) and Sierra’s boyfriend Scott (David Anders), carrying a guilt the synopsis declines to explain. Wiseau is Bartleby, the man who owns the property and its three gates. The legend about the water turns out to be accurate.
Casting Wiseau as the keeper of a lake full of divine genetic material is the most legible decision in the whole package, and it is the correct one. Bartleby is Melville’s name for the clerk who would prefer not to, and handing it to the least placeable performer in American independent film does more for a character like that than a dependable character actor would.
It Used to Be Called ‘Lake Vernon’
The film was announced in March 2025 as Lake Vernon, with the same director and the same six leads, and it shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Somewhere between then and now the title lost its lake and became Silt, which is a better word for what this kind of story does to a friend group. It settles on them.
Vernon Davis, the former NFL tight end, produces and plays a sidelined athlete named Mike Warner. He has been building an acting career since leaving football, most visibly opposite Morgan Freeman in The Ritual Killer, and he is credited on Silt as both a producer and a lead.
Two ‘iZombie’ Regulars Back in the Same Frame
David Anders and Malcolm Goodwin both spent years on iZombie, Anders as the butcher-turned-brain-dealer Blaine DeBeers and Goodwin as Detective Clive Babineaux, which put them on opposite sides of most of the scenes they shared. Anders plays Scott here and Goodwin plays Rick. Genre television manufactures reunions like this constantly and almost nobody sells them, which is a small waste of a good hook.
Eight Cities, Booked on Demand
Demand the Screen is handling the rollout, which makes these event bookings rather than a conventional theatrical run: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin and Dallas, with the distributor taking requests for additional cities. No wide release date and no streaming plan have been announced, so Silt is not yet on our 2026 and 2027 release calendar.
Rome frames the film as being about disclosure more than about the water. “Silt presented an interesting opportunity to explore the things we do—and don’t—tell the people closest to us,” he said.
Whether the lake’s miracles land as cosmic or as regional tall tale will come down to how far the film is willing to commit, and Rome has said he wanted to bring “something cosmic into what could otherwise feel recycled.” October is when anyone finds out.
