Back in 2020, Rob Savage first captured the attention of the internet thanks to a viral short he released in which he tricked friends into thinking he was attacked by something in his attic, which was just a clever edit of a scene from [REC]. Despite the constraints of the pandemic and quarantine measures, that short earned him the budget to write, direct, edit, and releas Host, which replicated the effectiveness of that original short but extended the amount of terror to be a feature.
His subsequent releases have been a bit of a mixed bag, first with Dashcam and then with the Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman. The filmmaker continues to explore all facets of the genre, with his latest, Other Mommy, just landing in theaters this weekend. At today’s Blumfest panel at New York Comic Con, his next project was confirmed.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Savage’s next film is set to be Molepeople. The movie has enlisted actors LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn, which is based on a script by Nathan Elston. The movie focuses on “a man who descends into the abandoned tunnels beneath New York City, where he discovers a twisted society lurking beneath the streets.” Reports of the project date back to 2024, though Anthony Ramos was previously attached.
Even though the effectiveness of Savage’s post-Host movies have been debatable, what’s exciting is that he continues to push himself into uncharted territory. Host was about a group of friends conducting a seance over Zoom, only for otherworldly spirits to target them one by one. Dashcam followed a conservative conspiracy theorist who was livestreaming her visit to London, resulting in a series of unsettling encounters along the way. The Boogeyman focused on a family attempting to overcome their grief all while they were stalked by a malevolent presence.
Other Mommy is an adaptation of the novel Incidents Around the House, in which a young girl is being stalked by a nefarious figure who looks identical to her real mother. While it’s too early to tell exactly what we’ll get in Molepeople, these initial details about the project could mean we get a more straightforward creature feature about disfigured individuals, or if they aren’t physically transformed, they might adhere to cult-like beliefs that wouldn’t be acceptable for the surface world.
Stanfield has a handful of horror movies to his name, including Get Out, Death Note, Haunted Mansion, and the TV series The Changeling. Mendelsohn might not have had as many significant horror roles in his career, but he has had important roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in the Star Wars franchise, and he also starred in the Stephen King TV series adaptation The Outsider.
Production on Molepeople is currently set to start later this year and it will hit theaters on August 27, 2027.
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