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Clancy Brown, Aaron Moten, Pat Healy, More Join Psychological Thriller ‘Nightwatching’
Aaron Moten (“Fallout”), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), and Pat Healy (The Innkeepers) are among latest to join the cast of Nightwatching, Deadline announced.
Other new additions include Mark Webber (Green Room), Grace Kelly Quigley (“Physical”), and Duke McCloud (“All Her Fault”).
As previously announced, Mila Kunis (Black Swan) and Corey Hawkins (Kong: Skull Island) star in the psychological thriller.
Based on Tracy Sierra’s 2024 novel of the same name, the film is directed by Adam Schindler & Brian Netto (Don’t Move).
Kunis stars as Lee, a mother who wakes to an intruder in her home during a relentless winter storm. In a single instant, what should have been an ordinary night unravels into a fight for survival.
As she struggles to protect her children, Lee is drawn into a harrowing game of doubt and danger, one that leaves her questioning not only who has entered her home, but what they truly want.
Hawkins will play the police officer in charge of her home invasion case. Other character details have not been revealed.
Laura Moss & Brendan J. O’Brien (Birth/Rebirth) wrote the original adaptation with a current draft by T.J Cimfel & David White (Don’t Move).
Producers include Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, and Sam Roston for Scott Free Productions, Erik Feig, Jessica Switch and Emily Wissink for Picturestart, and Kunis and Lisa Sterbakov for Kunis’ newly branded Brick for Sheep.
Graham Taylor and Christopher Slager will executive produce for Fifth Season, who is also financing the film. Justin Alvarado Brown will executive produce for Scott Free, with Roston and Avital Siegel overseeing for the company.
CAA Media Finance and WME Independent are representing the domestic distribution rights. Amazon MGM Studios will distribute internationally.
Nightwatching began shooting last week in California with Zach Kuperstein (Barbarian, Don’t Move) serving as cinematographer.
Pat Healy in ‘Cheap Thrills’
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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