‘Nervous’: Sarah Bolger Can’t Hear Men’s Voices in New Psychological Horror Thriller

Voltage Pictures has taken global rights (sans Korea) to the festival hit Nervous, starring Sarah Bolger (The Lazarus Effect, The Moth Diaries), a psychological horror thriller written and directed by Abner Pastoll (A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, Road Games), Deadline reports.

The pic also stars Ko Asung (Snowpiercer, The Host) and Sungsoo Yune (Smugglers, Live Stream).

“Desperate to save their crumbling marriage, Sarah and her husband relocate to the Korean countryside, where they discover a mysterious vinyl record that plays only silence. After listening, she loses the ability to hear men’s voices, plunging her into paranoia and hallucinations.

“Increasingly isolated and drawn to an enigmatic female neighbor, Sarah struggles to distinguish reality from nightmare. Is she losing her mind, or is something far more sinister at work?”

“Nervous began with a simple but very unsettling idea: what happens when you can no longer hear the person closest to you?” said producer Junyoung Jang. “We wanted to explore that through sound and silence, creating something intimate, disorienting and cinematic.”

The movie was shot in and around Seoul, South Korea with the project being a South Korean-UK production from Story Robot and February Films, in association with Superbe Films and MAP, and in association with Solaire Partners and Central Investment Partners.