‘Longlegs’ Star Alicia Witt to Lead Surrogacy Horror Thriller ‘Incuba Project’

Longlegs and Urban Legend‘s Alicia Witt will star alongside María Camila Giraldo (The Ritual) in the upcoming Colombian horror thriller Incuba Project, Variety reports out of AFM.

Penned by María Camila Caballero Páez (Más allá de la lluvia), the drama follows Jhoana (played by Giraldo), a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to make ends meet and allow her to care for her young son.

She meets other women in similar situations at the Maternity Incuba Care, an agency that promises to help but under the condition that the women must spend all nine months of their pregnancy inside its remote facility. As her pregnancy progresses, the other women begin to vanish one by one, Jhoana uncovers the nefarious secret the agency is hiding.

Witt plays Minerva, the head of the agency and the women’s caretaker.

Chilean filmmaker Juan Pablo Arias will direct the English-language feature, which is slated to shoot in Colombia.

Incuba Project is the first feature from Red Script Factory, the in-house writers’ room of Red Collision Studios, founded in Colombia by producers Vanessa Gómez and Sebastián Caballero.

“Incuba Project has a premise rich in horror textures, with many opportunities to build atmosphere and fear, but it also carries a very specific line of political and social critique. Not every film manages that combination. This is a project that can walk the line between commercial and auteur filmmaking in a clear and determined way and that’s what drew me to it. I’m very happy that this is also what Red Collision wants to do with the film,” said Arias.