Singer and actress Halsey (MaXXXine) co-writes and stars in the upcoming Replacer from director Avan Jogia (Backrooms, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), which Deadline reports has added Karl Glusman (Watcher, The Neon Demon) and Juliette Gariépy (Red Rooms) to cast just ahead of production.
Filming begins in Montreal later this month.
Described as a “psychosexual horror movie,”, the film’s synopsis reads: “Stranded in Montreal, Proxy (Halsey), a troubled DJ, meets an alluring artist and his group of friends who run an underground radio station. The station’s broadcast becomes warped by a mysterious signal hidden deep beneath the city’s subway system.
“Proxy must escape before the sound turns her, and her new friends, into something raw, primal, and unrecognizable.”
Executive producer Lilly Wachowski said in a statement, “Avan and Halsey’s script is a surreal hyper-dive into a twitchy, conspiratorial genre mashing snarl of horror/thriller/comedy, set against the grit and grime of a rarely glimpsed Montreal subculture.”
“This thing is packed! I have the sense that Avan’s eyeballs have gulped down a steady diet of the films I grew up on – David Cronenberg, Alex Cox, Tony Scott, John Carpenter,” Wachowski continues. “Anarchists United is beyond excited to join the Replacer team and bring this super cool story to the screen!”
Jogia previews, “Replacer is a bright and electric club horror mashed together with a vulnerable romantic story about belonging and community. Come together. Leave as one.”
Also joining the project is German producer and composer Alex Ridha, who will score the film.
