Pop diva Halsey continues her budding screen career with a leading role in Replacer, an upcoming “psychosexual horror” directed by Avan Jogia (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Backrooms).
Halsey co-wrote the script with Jogia, with The Matrix‘s Lilly Wachowski executive producing.
In Replacer:
Stranded in Montreal, Proxy (Halsey), a troubled DJ, meets an alluring artist and his group of friends who run an underground radio station. The station’s broadcast becomes warped by a mysterious signal hidden deep beneath the city’s subway system. Proxy must escape before the sound turns her, and her new friends, into something raw, primal, and unrecognizable.
Per Deadline, Replacer is launching sales at this week’s Cannes market, with CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group representing North American rights and Film Mode Entertainment handling international sales.
Wachowski has some very promising words about Replacer:
“Avan and Halsey’s script is a surreal hyper-dive into a twitchy, conspiratorial genre mashing snarl of horror/thriller/comedy, set against the grit and grime of a rarely glimpsed Montreal subculture. This thing is packed! I have the sense that Avan’s eyeballs have gulped down a steady diet of the films I grew up on — David Cronenberg, Alex Cox, Tony Scott, John Carpenter. Anarchists United is beyond excited to join the Replacer team and bring this super cool story to the screen!”
Jogia adds:
“Replacer is a bright and electric club horror mashed together with a vulnerable romantic story about belonging and community. Come together. Leave as one.”
Replacer will mark Halsey's next foray into horror following her supporting role in Ti West's MaXXXine, where she played adult entertainer Tabby, a friend of Mia Goth's titular star.
Look out for more on Replacer as we get it.
