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‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’s Damian Maffei to Star in Liminal Horror Film ‘The Space Between’
Genre favorite Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt, Wrong Turn) will star in The Space Between, a liminal psychological horror film set over a single night inside a Midwestern shopping mall after closing.
Maffei plays Rick, an overnight security guard who takes a quiet job following a recent personal loss, believing the predictable routine will help him reset.
But when unexplained incidents begin occurring throughout the building, Rick is forced to question his memory and his grip on reality.
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Wisconsin next month, with writer-director Joshua Garity making his feature debut on the project.
“At its core, this is about someone who believes structure will protect him,” said Garity. “When that structure begins to drift, there’s nothing left to hold onto.”
Maffei’s other upcoming genre projects include The Events Surrounding a Peeping Tom, Sundown, and Stream 2: Sudden Death.
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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