Lionsgate has just announced the new thriller, The Gates, for select theaters on March 13, 2026.
The Gates is John Burr’s second feature, following his debut, the supernatural thriller Muse, and features Scream 7 star Mason Gooding alongside James Van Der Beek, who passed away last week, “at his most charming and terrifying”.
The Gates follows three college students — Derek, Kevin, and Tyon (Gooding, Algee Smith and Keith Powers) on a road trip gone wrong, as the three young men take an ill-advised shortcut through a remote gated community, where they find themselves trapped behind the walls after witnessing a murder.
Over the course of the night, they find themselves blamed, hunted, and fractured by their own differing belief systems, while the perpetrator (James Van Der Beek) emerges as the cunning patriarch who holds the entire community under his influence.
Rated R for violence, language, some sexual references and brief drug use.
