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Curry Barker’s horror Obsession (acquired by Focus Features after TIFF) premiered at SXSW with Barker saying he trimmed “six or seven” head-smash shots to avoid an NC-17; sources placed Focus’s TIFF acquisition at over $15M and the film remains a high-gore festival buzzer.
Undertone — director/writer Ian Tuason’s A24 supernatural feature starring Nina Kiri — is polarizing critics vs audiences but is already profitable: a reported $500,000 budget and over $4.3M domestic gross so far, and Tuason says he and A24 have a trilogy concept in mind.
Maika Monroe confirms David Robert Mitchell’s long-gestating It Follows sequel They Follow will finally begin principal photography this summer under NEON after repeated scheduling delays.
Hokum, Damian McCarthy’s haunted-hotel horror starring Adam Scott, screened as a Midnighter at SXSW and is slated for a May 1 release; the film mixes Irish folklore with a claustrophobic hotel setting and a cast including Austin Amelio and David Wilmot.
Hulu passed on the in-development Buffy: New Sunnydale reboot — Sarah Michelle Gellar announced the cancellation; Chloé Zhao was attached to direct and Nora & Lilla Zuckerman were writers, with Ryan Kiera Armstrong previously cast as the new Slayer.
SXSW review: Russell Goldman’s Sender is a taut psychological horror/psycho-thriller starring Britt Lower and Rhea Seehorn about a woman stalked via anonymous e‑commerce deliveries, notable for sound design, blurred-edge cinematography, and a character-driven unreliable-narrator approach.
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