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‘Relic’ Director Natalie Erika James Teases Three Horror Movies She’s Currently Writing
The horror world has seen a handful of incredible debut features in recent years, from Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Jordan Peele’s Get Out to Robert Eggers’ The Witch and Ari Aster’s Hereditary. Right up there with those incredible horror films is Natalie Erika James‘ Relic, a devastating metaphor for dementia that was just released earlier this month.
Horror in 2020 doesn’t get much better than Relic, and the film has left us with a whole lot of excitement for whatever its co-writer/director does next. So what’s next, you ask?
Speaking with Fangoria in the magazine’s latest issue (#8), Natalie Erika James teases what she’s currently working on. “I’m writing a few things, and they’re in subgenres of horror I would say,” she tells the magazine. “The one that’s furthest along is a Japanese folk horror which is very in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Wicker Man, that kind of thing.”
She continues, “It has to do with pregnancy and the push and pull between self-hood and motherhood because… it does feel like a horror story. I feel like nothing in your life can prepare you for the trauma of childbirth, at least not in what I witnessed when my sister went through it.”
“And then I’m also writing a demon horror set in LA, and a body horror set in NY,” James adds.
Relic is now available through VOD outlets via IFC Midnight.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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