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‘Julia’s Eyes’ Director Guillem Morales Heading Back to the 1980s for Next Horror Movie ‘Brother’
Up next from Julia’s Eyes director Guillem Morales is a psychological horror movie titled Brother, and Variety details that the project will take us back into the dark heart of the ’80s.
“Set in the early 1980s and located in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, the pic turns on the depraved Morrow family, which lives off the beaten path and preys on young women whom they kidnap from the side of the highway. There’s unrest within the family, however, as their 19-year-old son Michael tries to break free from their clutches and escape his past.”
Based on a novel by Ania Ahlborn, Brother was adapted by Fred Strydom.
Morales said, “Set in the early eighties, just as Kubrick’s The Shining was released in theaters, Brother evokes the thriller and horror classics of the eighties, having potential to delight both longstanding fans of the genre as well as the younger generation of today. The film will elicit the same dark euphoria as Rosemary’s Baby, The Silence of the Lambs or Psycho.”
WestEnd Films is launching sales on Brother at the Cannes market this month.
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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