EXCLUSIVE: 5 Nights at Freddy’s and Shadow & Bone star Freddy Carter has been set to star with Lulu Wilson (Annabelle franchise), Mark McKenna (The Vacationer), Stelio Savante (Sarah’s Oil) and Jeremy Gauna (1923) in sci-fi horror movie Do Not Open.
Jada Jay, Diletta Guglielmi and singer-songwriter John Ford Coley spherical out the solid.
Kristian McKay is writing and directing the function, which is alleged to be impressed by cult style films like Christine and Videodrome. The contained supernatural thriller is ready inside a distant Texas storage facility, “a spot of forgotten story, deserted recollections, locked metallic doorways, and lives individuals tried to go away behind.”
The movie will likely be lensed by Harrison Kraft, whose work on Lemonade Blessing earned a Greatest Cinematography nomination on the 2025 Tribeca Movie Competition. Produced by McKay’s manufacturing banner Obscura Movie, the film is executive-produced by Daunesh Alcott, and produced by McKay and Stelio Savante.
McKay’s horror thriller Kill Journey, additionally produced by Obscura Movie, will likely be launched within the U.S. on July 17 by Quiver Distribution. His function Ventaja gained the Golden Palm award on the 2018 Mexico Worldwide Movie Competition and the Viewers award at NewFilmmakers LA.
Savante’s producing credit embrace Below The Stadium Lights, starring Laurence Fishburne, for Saban Movies; What Stays, starring Anne Heche, Cress Williams, and Kellan Lutz, for Gravitas Ventures; and Offended Neighbors, starring Frank Langella, Bobby Cannavale and Ashley Benson, for Lionsgate.
Carter is represented by Genuine Expertise and Literary Administration, Conway Van Gelder Grant, and Ziffren Brittenham. Wilson is repped by Genuine Expertise and Literary Administration, UTA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. McKenna is repped by Genuine Expertise & Literary Administration, Unbiased Expertise Group, and Peikoff Mahan. Savante is with Opus Leisure, Mavrick Artists, Linda McAlister Expertise, and Kaye & Mills. Gauna is with Linda McAlister Expertise.