Over a year after the film premiered at Sundance, Deadline reports this week that horror movie The Moogai has been picked up for U.S. distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films. “A May theatrical release is in the works,” Deadline notes. In The Moogai… “Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second […]
Over a year after the film premiered at Sundance, Deadline reports this week that horror movie The Moogai has been picked up for U.S. distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
“A May theatrical release is in the works,” Deadline notes.
In The Moogai…
“Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit, she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, who can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her, grows increasingly worried as she becomes more unbalanced. Is the child-stealing spirit real or is she in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family?”
Shari Sebbens, Meyne Wyatt, Tessa Rose, Bella Heathcote and Toby Leonard Moore star in The Moogai, which marks the feature debut of Indigenous filmmaker Jon Bell.
The feature adapts Bell’s own award-winning 2021 short film of the same name.
Producers are Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings of Causeway Films – whose credits include The Babadook and Talk To Me – with Mitchell Stanley of No Coincidence Media.
