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A Remote Maternity Facility Hides a Deadly Secret in Colombia’s Next Genre Export
Alicia Witt is heading back into horror. The actress, last seen terrifying audiences opposite Nicolas Cage in Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, will star with María Camila Giraldo in Incuba Project, an English-language horror thriller set to shoot in Colombia under Chilean director Juan Pablo Arias. Variety has the exclusive, and the film is the first feature to come out of Red Script Factory, the in-house writers’ room at Bogotá-based Red Collision Studios.
Giraldo, who recently shared the screen with Al Pacino and Dan Stevens in the exorcism chiller The Ritual, plays Jhoana, a Colombian immigrant who agrees to become a surrogate so she can support her young son. The agency that recruits her, Maternity Incuba Care, comes with one strict rule: every woman in its program has to live out all nine months of her pregnancy inside an isolated facility. As Jhoana’s due date draws closer, the other expectant mothers start disappearing one at a time, and she begins to piece together what the agency is really up to. Witt plays Minerva, the woman who runs the place and looks after its residents.
Writer María Camila Caballero Páez penned the script, and the producers are pitching it as horror with a pointed social edge about the exploitation of migrant women. Arias, whose earlier work includes Casa Grande with Lou Diamond Phillips and the Warner Bros.-released The Curse of the Necklace, said the premise gives him plenty of room for atmosphere and dread while still carrying a clear political message, a balance he called rare.
Red Collision founders Vanessa Gómez and Sebastián Caballero are building a slate of Colombian genre films aimed at worldwide audiences, with Incuba Project serving as the flagship. The film also continues a busy stretch in the genre for Witt, following Longlegs and this year’s Twisted with Djimon Hounsou.
Director: Juan Pablo Arias
Writer: María Camila Caballero Páez
Cast: Alicia Witt, María Camila Giraldo
Production: Red Collision Studios (Red Script Factory)
Producers: Vanessa Gómez, Sebastián Caballero
Status: In development, set to shoot in Colombia
Source: Reporting and confirmation via Variety.
