After breaking from 1852's last wagon train to California, a pregnant woman and her husband's family travel toward a supernatural fate as the patriarch descends into madness.

"I've been writing feminist historical horror since 7th grade... 

…before I had the vocabulary to understand what I was writing. And I'm passionate about Westerns, but I'm interested in the stories that haven't been told. The West was the most diverse place in American history, but you wouldn't know it from watching most of Hollywood's great Westerns. I’m fascinated by its brutal reality, and I’ve spent the past number of years researching what it was actually like.

In summer 2019, I was writing a female-driven Western when a shooter killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, declaring his attack a response to “the Hispanic invasion” at the border. I decided that instead of just bringing a woman’s perspective to a Western, I’d explore the uncomfortable truth at America’s roots. Thus, The Invaders is more than a horror film, and more than a western: it’s an accountability fantasy for myself and every other child weaned on Laura Ingles Wilder and the notion of Manifest Destiny."

-Writer/Director Erin Doyle Cooper