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‘October’ – Young Mazino & Stephen Root Join Jeremy Saulnier’s A24 Halloween Movie
Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Rebel Ridge) is back in the A24 business with the upcoming October, and Deadline reports that “The Last of Us” and Opus actor Young Mazino and “Barry” actor Stephen Root have joined in supporting roles.
Mazino and Root join previously announced cast members Chase Sui Wonders (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me), and Cory Michael Smith (Saturday Night).
Plot and character details for October remain tightly guarded, but the project has been described as a “fugitive thriller set during Halloween.” Saulnier will direct from his own script, with A24 producing and financing.
Producers for the film include Rich Peete, Eli Bush, and Jeremy Saulnier & Skei Saulnier, with Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Traci Carlson and Elliott Coley and Macon Blair.
Macon Blair, who previously starred in Saulnier’s films Murder Party, Blue Ruin and Green Room, directed reboot The Toxic Avenger.
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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