Amelia Moses says she never aimed at big screen jump scares and buckets of blood with her female-driven body horror pic Bloodthirsty.
With her second feature, set to debut at Cannes's first-ever virtual film market, where 775 Media Corp is handling sales, the Canadian director instead blends a werewolf tale with slow-burn spookiness and dread to explore female anxieties. "I'm looking for something more visceral, that slowly gets under your skin and for me, as a horror fan and an audience member, those are the films that I enjoy more," Moses tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Bloodthirsty stars Lauren Beatty as Grey, a young singer whose anti-psychotic drugs don't put a stop to early dream sequences about being a wolf.
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