Organ Trail is a 2023 American horror-Western film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and starring Zoé De Grand Maison, Mather Zickel, and Lisa LoCicero.
Set in the 1870s on the Oregon Trail, the story follows Abigale Archer as she attempts to retrieve her family's horse while fighting against the outlaws that killed her parents and brother.
In Montana, 1870, the Archer family escapes a winter storm and makes camp so their horse, Fable, can rest.
Tobias and Abraham discover a massacred wagon train, and the only survivor is a woman named Cassidy, who has been injured by arrows driven through her palms.
That night, four bandits – Logan, Rhys, Brody, and Felix – invade the camp and kill Abraham, Celeste, and Tobias.
Rhys makes arrowheads with a unique mold but he doesn't wear gloves while working with molten metal.
He takes her to his house on Wicker Ranch, where his pregnant wife, Nora, nurses the hypothermic Abby back to health.
After tweeting the title and concept in April 2021, director Michael Patrick Jann optioned the script in May.
[1] In March 2022, it was announced that Jann and David Codron would produce Organ Trail, Jann would direct, and the film would star Zoé De Grand Maison, Olivia Applegate, Clé Bennett, Sam Trammell, and Jessica Frances Dukes.
[2] Later that month, Mather Zickel was announced to have joined the cast as Pa Archer, a Civil War veteran.
[3] In April, Michael Abbott Jr. was included in the cast list of the film, which had wrapped production by that point.
[8][9] Tyler Doupe' of Dread Central praised the film as "a gruesome horror-western that serves up a dynamic cast of characters and a killer denouement."
"[11] Brandon Zachary for CBR wrote "Organ Trail is a solid Western with thriller elements, but it can't quite reach the horrific heights it's aiming for."