Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti, who made waves by vowing to never release their found footage horror film It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This on streaming or physical media, are back with another unconventional feature.
Homebody is a lo-fi ghost story shot on MiniDV tape in black and white, then transferred to VHS. Watch the trailer below, courtesy of Variety.
In the film, “Meg, a young widow whose husband recently died of cancer, is stuck in the life they were supposed to be building together. One night, Meg meets a woman who lives on the street and claims she can talk to ghosts. She tells Meg things only Cory could have known.
“Meg invites the woman home to live with her on the condition that she has to keep channeling Cory, no matter how painful it becomes. And it will become painful.”
Kempf and Toti write, direct, and produce via their DieDieVideo banner. Julie Linnard, Elizabeth Joanne, Eric Stevenson, Meredith Sladek, Shane Mullen, Avery G. Tillett, and Bob Mielke star.
“The movie feels uncomfortably intimate and aesthetically raw,” Toti tells Variety. “Watching Homebody is like reading someone’s diary and then immediately feeling guilty about it. It’s a movie that makes you feel bad, but in a good way. Sometimes you want to live inside of bad feelings. Catharsis doesn’t always come easy.”
Homebody is coming soon. Kempf and Toti have expressed a desire to remake it on a larger scale with a bigger budget.
