When will Shelby Oaks premiere? Release date, cast details, first look, and more

Chris Stuckmann’s feature directorial debut, Shelby Oaks, is scheduled for a theatrical release in the United States on October 24, 2025. The supernatural horror film features Camille Sullivan as Mia Brennan and Sarah Durn as Riley. The supporting cast features Michael Beach and Keith David, among others.

The plot revolves around Mia as she becomes consumed by the twelve-year-old disappearance of her sister, Riley, a member of a paranormal investigation team known as “The Paranormal Paranoids.” The team mysteriously vanished while filming at the abandoned town of Shelby Oaks, Ohio.

Shelby Oaks release date, film official synopsis and trailer breakdown

Releasing on October 24, 2025, the film's official synopsis reads:

"A woman’s obsessive search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil."

Shelby Oaks trailer open with chilling footages on tape reveiwed by Mia, which feature distorted video fragments of a past event. The scene depicts Mia Brennan haunted by the disappearance of her sister Riley, which happened twelve years earlier.

The following scenes featur old footages of Shelby Oaks where a voiceover states, "Riley Brennan is now missing. She was last seen in Shelby Oaks." The next scene depicts Mia browing the internet with the scene featuring her voiceover stating:

"There is a dark and deeply haunted history in the woods of Shelby Oaks. My sister isn't the first to go missing."

The trailer further shows spooky, decaying environments such as gloomy Ohio forests and what appears to be the massive, deserted Ohio State Reformatory. Key sequences include Riley's "Paranormal Paranoids" crew in their final, terrifying moments before vanishing, intercut with Mia's frantic investigation.

The final scenes of the trailer reveal disembodied shadows, a glimpse of a menacing figure, and Mia's growing paranoia implying that the thing from her and Riley's childhood might actually exist. As such, Mia is determined to uncover the mystery before it consumes her as well in the supernatural mystery horror.

Shelby Oaks cast and characters

A still from the film's trailer (Image via YouTube/Neon)

The film features the Canadian actress Camille Sullivan in the lead role of Mia Brennan, the sister of the missing woman, Riley Brennan (played by Sarah Dunn), who was a part of a paranormal investigation crew. Listed below are other featured cast and characters in the film: