Mason Gooding, Keith Powers and Algee Smith lead ‘The Gates,’ an all-new thriller set to his theaters on March 13. ‘The Gates’ follows three faculty college students — Derek, Kevin and Tyon (Gooding, Smith and Powers) — on a highway journey gone mistaken, because the three younger males take an ill-advised shortcut by a distant gated group, the place they discover themselves trapped behind the partitions after witnessing a homicide. Over the course of the evening, they discover themselves blamed, hunted and fractured by their very own differing perception programs, whereas the perpetrator — James Van Der Beek, at his most charming and terrifying — emerges because the crafty patriarch that holds the whole group beneath his affect.
