Films like Wolf Creek and Lake Mungo proved that Australia is more than capable of producing terrifying horror films, and this time, one of their most promising filmmakers is tackling the road movie. Variety reports that director Kiah Roache-Turner is set to helm Don’t Look, a road horror film set deep in the Australian outback.
Directed by Roache-Turner from a script by Sean Loch, Don’t Look is led by Furiosa alum Alyla Browne, who previously worked with Roache-Turner on the spider horror Sting. Also set to star are George Pullar, Masha Basman, and Stephen Peacocke, with a synopsis as follows:
Set against the backdrop of the Australian outback, the film follows 15-year-old Riley (Browne), travelling across the outback with her father when they come across two seemingly abandoned cars at an isolated desert crossing. When an invisible force drags her father away Riley finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a terrifying creature that is only visible to its next victim.
Don’t Look is produced by Blake Northfield and Sam Price, and comes from a screenplay that spent six trending weeks on The Black List, a list of popular but unproduced scripts collected by industry executives.
“I don’t want to give the game away but we’re up against a monster that I’ve never really seen before onscreen,” Roache-Turner told Variety. “It’s such a weird creature and so beautifully and horrifically creepy that I’ve decided to change my entire visual style just to accommodate Sean’s insanely original narrative. All I can say at this stage is that it’s as scary as all hell and there are scenes in this movie that are going to traumatise people very deeply. Of course, those are the scenes I’m most looking forward to directing!”
No release date has been set for Don’t Look. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates.
