‘Unsane’ First Look Reveals Steven Soderbergh’s Mysterious New Horror Movie
After a brief stint in semi-retirement,Steven Soderberghis back in action. Next up from the director is the mysterious horror movieUnsane, starringClaire Foy. Two new first look images from the film have been released ahead of the film’s premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Steven Soderbergh sort-of retired a few years ago, but he never really stopped working. The filmmaker behindTraffic,Haywireand theOcean’s 11films kept busy by shooting the TV seriesThe Knick, and he finally returned to filmmaking last year with the indie comedyLogan Lucky. Soderbergh shows no signs of taking things easy now that he’s back in the director’s chair: he was behind the HBO TV seriesMosaicand he already has his next film ready.Unsaneis a new horror movie that Soderbergh shot on an iPhone. The film starsThe Crown’sClaire Foy,The Blair Witch Project’sJoshua Leonard,SNL’sJay Pharoah,Killer Joe’s Juno Temple,Appropriate Behavior’sAimee Mullins, andTraffic’sAmy Irving.
Unsaneis set to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival next month, and ahead of that premiere, two new images have been released. They show star Claire Foy looking very nervous.
Details regarding justwhatthis movie is about remain scant. PerCollider, co-star Jay Pharaoh said the film is “reality-type horror — almostGet Out-ish, but different.”
Whatever this film really ends up being about, I’m there. I’m a huge fan of Steven Soderbergh’s films, and even when his movies don’tquiteturn out to be as good as I wished they had been, they’re almost always interesting. I’m also very intrigued at the idea of Soderbergh making a horror movie. The closest thing Soderbergh has made to a horror movie in his long, eclectic career is the 1991 filmKafka, starring Jeremy Irons as a fictional version of writer Franz Kafka, who discovers himself trapped in a saga that could’ve been taken directly from one of his stories. I suppose you could also consider Soderbergh’s multi-narrative plague filmContagiona bit of a horror movie, since it’s loaded with plenty of horrific imagery.
I’m also very interested to see howUnsaneends up looking, knowing it was shot on an iPhone. Soderbergh isn’t the first filmmaker to make a movie completely on a smartphone – Sean Baker’s excellentTangerinewas completely shot on an iPhone as well, and it looked fantastic.
