MD Bastek
Director Alex Proyas has a new horror thriller in the works, Sister Darkness. Proyas’ previous work includes The Crow, Gods of Egypt, and I, Robot.
Sister Darkness is compared to Proyas’ cult hit The Crow and described as a “macabre female-driven fever dream of revenge and gothic terror.” The plot sounds both interesting and original.
Sister Darkness is centered around an unhappy newlywed named Alice who lives in the U.K. during the 1930s. Alice crosses paths with her doppelganger Isla “whose existence is a mystery seeped in a tale of bloody retribution against her oppressors, the hellish supernatural nightscape, and a dreaded uprising against the deceitful aristocracy.”
With an original script written by Proyas, Sister Darkness is inspired by U.K. horror movies from the 60s and 70s and films such as The Innocents and The Legend of Hell House. Sister Darkness marks Proyas’ return to feature films since 2016’s Gods of Egypt. In the years since, Proyas has made several shorts.
Filming is set to start in Australia in late 2022 and continue into mid-2023. Sisters has an estimated budget of $35 million. Sister Darkness will use a fully virtual production process designed by Proyas’ VFX studio, Heretic Foundation, which he started in 2020.
Sister Darkness is Proyas’s first film being co-produced and financed in a partnership between Proyas’ production house, Heretic Foundation, alongside his IP development company, Mystery Clock Cinema. and U.K.-based 108 Media.
Collider quotes Proyas “We are excited to be embarking with 108 Media on what we genuinely believe will be the first step of a long and fruitful journey together. Sister Darkness will be a milestone in the use of virtual production at this scale and Heretic’s talented team will allow us to establish production values at much higher levels in this budget range than ever before thought achievable. This is the future of filmmaking.”
