A quick payday turns into a fight for survival on an isolated mountainside in Trim Season, a 2023 horror thriller directed by Ariel Vida.
What is Trim Season about?
A group of young seasonal workers travels to a remote marijuana farm hoping to earn fast cash trimming the harvest before moving on with their lives. The job is meant to be temporary and simple, but the isolation of the mountain quickly starts working against them, and the farm reveals unsettling secrets that have nothing to do with the work they signed up for. As the group pieces together what's really happening around them, the film shifts from seasonal-labor drama into survival horror, trapping its characters on the mountain with no easy way down. Trim Season builds its dread out of the setting itself — the remoteness, the isolation of a workforce far from home, the sense that no one outside the farm would know if something went wrong — and uses that vulnerability to drive its back half.
About the cast
Bethlehem Million leads the ensemble, joined by Alex Essoe, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Jane Badler, Ryan Donowho, Cory Hart, Alexia Ioannides, and Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy as the workers and figures tied to the farm.
Context & significance
Released in 2023, Trim Season belongs to a wave of horror films set within the cannabis trade's seasonal labor economy, a backdrop that lets the genre explore economic precarity alongside its scares. The mountain setting and transient workforce give the story a built-in sense of isolation that horror thrillers often have to work harder to manufacture, and Ariel Vida uses that geography as much as any single threat to keep tension high.
Watching Trim Season on Ktime
Trim Season is available on K-Time with a free account login, offered with both Persian dub and Persian subtitles so Farsi-speaking viewers can choose how they watch. Running 100 minutes, it joins K-Time's horror and thriller catalog, accessible through the platform's Farsi-language interface built for the Iranian diaspora.