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Optimum Acquires UK Rights to Guillermo del Toro Produced ‘Julia’s Eyes’
While this news doesn’t do much for us here in the States, it does give us an idea of how powerful the EFM promo was for the Spanish thriller Julia’s Eyes, which was jointly produced by Guillermo del Toro and Barcelona’s Rodar and Rodar (both teams behind The Orphanage). Those in the UK, Optimum Releasing has scored theatrical rights to Guillem Morales (An Uncertain Guest) chiller after witnessing a three-minute promo and screenplay. An atmospheric psychological thriller, said Medina, Eyes unfolds in a Spanish hamlet. A young blind woman’s sudden death provokes a local blackout. Her sister (played by Orphanage lead Belen Rueda), an astronomist, investigates. But her sight is also failing. The feature is now in post-production. Check out the first ever images below.
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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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