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Jon Seda Tells B-D ‘Disturbed’ May Not See the Light of Day
“Oz” actor Jon Seda, who was most recently rumored to be starring in horror/thriller/creature feature (?) Disturbed directed by Bill Eagles, updated B-D on the project backstage at last Thursday night’s Saturn Awards and indicated it may not actually be happening at all. Read on for the details.
“I’m kinda involved, but I’m not sure if I’m actually gonna be involved, so it’s kinda still up in the air,” said Seda. “I know it’s going around with me as really being involved, but it might not be as true as you think…I’m not sure where they really are with it, so…I don’t know [what the hold up is], I know there’s been some scheduling problems, some financing problems, dates have been pushed, which then once the dates are pushed then I’m working, other actors are working as well. So I’m hoping in the end it all comes together and gets finished. I think it has a good premise, I think we haven’t had that many really good…horror films lately, [with] that mystery kind of [element]. And I think this has a shot to be that. I hope it all [comes] together.”
Sounds like an intriguing project, so would be interesting to see this one come to fruition. Of course as we well know, in Hollywood nothing is ever certain until the film is in the can.
Assuming it ever gets off the ground, Arielle Kebbel (The Uninvited, The Grudge 2, Freakdog), Jon Seda (“Oz”), Moran Atias (The Next Three Days), Lauren Cohan (“Supernatural”), Tad Hilgenbrinck (The Hills Run Red) and Shaun Sipos (The Grudge 2, Rampage) would star in the film penned by Eitan Arussi and Martin Friend.
SYNOPSIS: “Having just arrived in sultry Puerto Rico, a straight-arrow medical researcher “Claire” (Cohan) is excited to see her fiancé “Jack” (Sipos) after a six-month separation. But Jack has changed…his eyes have been opened and his cozy assumptions challenged by his time in the field working with the poor of Puerto Rico, and by fiery local beauty “Yara” (Atias) and her fiercely jealous lover “Hector” (Jon Seda). Jack’s not sure he wants what Claire wants anymore.
Having their `uber-successful’ and sexed up friends, “Sam” (Kebbel) and “Vince” (Hilgenbrinck), along for the trip doesn’t give them much space to work out their problems. But the lovers’ distress is magnified a thousand fold when they find themselves abandoned on a deserted island by the suspicious Hector – and confront a horror born of vivisection, human experimentation and madness.”
Pictured: Arielle Kebbel
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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