‘The Nest’ Promo Teaser Unveils New Psychological Horror from ‘[REC]’ Producer Filmax

Filmax, the Barcelona-based studio behind [REC] and The Nameless, is bringing new psychological horror movie The Nest to the Cannes market, Variety reports today.

Directing The Nest is Hugo Stuven (Solo) from a script by Santiago Lallana (Solo), César de Nicolás and Stuven.

The horror movie follows “Marta, who is so obsessed with protecting her family from the terrifying outside world that she keeps her mother and young son locked in their mountain village home. Everything seems to go well until one day a man arrives, intent on destroying everything Marta has built.”

Michelle Jenner (Bird Box: Barcelona) stars.

“’The Nest’ has all the elements of a classic suspense movie and the story it tells of what goes on behind the closed doors of one family is both disturbing and terrifying,” producer Laura Fernández at Filmax told Variety.

“A perverse, cold and calculating woman, convinced she’s doing what’s necessary to protect her family, keeps her mother and young son locked up inside the house,” she adds. “The constant sense of unease makes it both captivating and horrifying. It’s a story that takes place inside one house, within one family, but one which could, unfortunately, be splashed across the pages of any newspaper tomorrow.”

The Nest goes into production soon, but in the meantime Filmax is bringing a promo reel to Cannes market for potential buyers. It’s a strategy that the studio employed on Jaume Balagueró’s 2002 English-language horror movie Darkness, a breakout U.S. hit for Miramax starring Anna Paquin and Lena Olin. The Nest‘s promo reel is shot in English, but Filmax notes that will be in Spanish.