Round the Decay
{{Infobox film
| image = Round the Decay poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Adam Newman{{Cite web |title=Round the Decay (2025) - Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Round-the-Decay-(2025) |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=The Numbers}}
| producer = Jon Balanoff
Adam McDonald
Adam Newman
Jay Voishnis
Topher Hansson
| starring = Phil Duran
Victoria Mirrer
| cinematography = Mike Magilnick
| editing = Topher Hansson
| studio = Dreamscape Productions
| distributor = Dreamscape Productions
| released = {{Film date|2025|01|31|ref1=}}
}}
Round the Decay is a 2025 American independent{{Cite web |last=Billington |first=Alex |date=2024-07-22 |title=First Look at Folk Horror 'Round The Decay' with an Original Monster {{!}} FirstShowing.net |url=https://www.firstshowing.net/2024/first-trailer-for-folk-horror-round-the-decay-with-an-original-monster/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=www.firstshowing.net |language=en-US}} horror film directed, written, and produced by Adam Newman. The film follows a young woman who returns to the site of her broken engagement, Newport's Valley, a sleepy tourist town with an all-consuming secret.
The film was released in the United States on January 31, 2025.
Premise
In the 17th century, Whelan Newport made the ultimate sacrifice as a pact with a tortured, ravenous spirit to rid the land of the last of its indigenous people and secure his family's future in colonial New Hampshire. Newport's Valley was settled on a cursed foundation.
In present day, Kenzie Rhodes heads to Newport's Valley two years after tragically losing her fiancé. Bart Blakewell is trying to settle in as a new business owner in The Valley but is having a hard time fitting in, even with support from the town's polite leader, Gregory Newport. Roz Jackson is struggling to make ends meet and matters are made worse when Bart has to cut her hours at the Barn Owl Inn. A group of hikers ascends the town's mountain, chancing upon an uncharted cave housing the ancient evil...
As a creature of nightmare wreaks havoc on Newport's Valley, the group of lonely outcasts are forced to work together, their pasts colliding with their present. All is made stranger when the mysterious Munroe appears, summoned by a family that seeks to end the monster's reign, and revealing there is more than one monster in The Valley.
Cast
- Victoria Mirrer as Kenzie Rhodes
- Damian Maffei as Munroe
- Sienna Hubert-Ross as Rosalyn 'Roz' Jackson
- Cary Hite as Bart Blakewell
- Alexis Safoyan as Aida Kazarian
- Rachel Pizzolato as The Wrexsoul
- Phil Duran as Larold Hayes
Production
Release
The film was released theatrically in the United States on January 31, 2025.{{Cite web |last=Staebell |first=Bryan |date=2025-01-29 |title=Round the Decay Review |url=https://scarevalue.com/round-the-decay-review/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=Scare Value |language=en-US}}