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Taissa Farmiga Joins the Cast of Spinoff ‘The Nun’
The Conjuring universe… now with double the Farmiga!
Shooting is set to begin soon on director Corin Hardy’s The Nun, a spinoff film centered on the creepy character we first met in last year’s The Conjuring 2. As we recently learned, Demián Bichir (Alien: Covenant) was the first to join the cast, and Deadline is reporting today that Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story,” The Final Girls) is now also on board.
Farmiga, the sister of The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga, will play the young nun. Bechir plays a priest named Father Burke, dispatched by Rome to investigate a mysterious death of a nun.
Scripted by Gary Dauberman and James Wan, and produced by Wan and Peter Safran, the film gives front-and-center treatment to the demonic nun who menaced Vera Farmiga’s character throughout The Conjuring 2. Dauberman and Todd Williams are exec producers.
New Line will release The Nun in theaters on Friday, July 13, 2018. It will be the fifth film in the franchise and will follow this summer’s August 11th release of Annabelle 2.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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