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‘Southbound’ and ‘V/H/S’ Filmmakers Roxanne Benjamin and David Bruckner Collaborate on ‘Fall Into Darkness’!
A very exciting piece of news comes out of the virtual Cannes market, with ScreenDaily reporting that Roxanne Benjamin is set to direct the brand new survival thriller Fall Into Darkness from a screenplay by David Bruckner and Nick Tecosky.
The film is described as “a Lord of the Flies tale about American backpackers stranded with locals in a vast cave system in the Dominican Republic.”
Nell Tiger Free (pictured above in “Servant”), Thomas Doherty, and Lorenza Izzo (The Green Inferno, Knock Knock, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) will star in the film that was adapted from the 2014 Spanish-language thriller La Cueva from Morena Films.
Benjamin is a huge part of the Bloody Disgusting family, having helped us acquire our awesome BD Selects line of films and also producing both V/H/S and V/H/S/2 before going on to direct a segment in our horror anthology Southbound. She also helmed the excellent indie thriller Body at Brighton Rock, as well as episodes of “Creepshow”, “Riverdale”, and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”.
Bruckner and Tecosky developed the story with Pedro Uriol and Juan Gordon of Morena Films, who also serve as executive producers. Bruckner, who is currently in prep on Hellraiser for Hulu, also directed segments in V/H/S and Southbound, and directed The Ritual for Netflix and the forthcoming The Night House for Searchlight.
Peter Block (SAW) of A Bigger Boat and Zak Kilberg of Social Construct are producing. Bruckner also serves as an executive producer with Connie Hoy and Blue Ridge Media Capital.
Production is scheduled to begin this autumn at Lantica’s Pinewood Studios in Dominican Republic.
Pictured: Roxanne Benjamin
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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