{"id":618705,"date":"2026-09-08T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618705\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:32:17","slug":"spencer-lackey-jumping-from-social-media-to-features-with-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618705\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Lackey Jumping From Social Media to Features With ‘Lust’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA few months ago, The Hollywood Reporter informally surveyed agents, managers and producers about who could be the next Curry Barker or Kane Parsons. Spencer Lackey was one of the names<\/a> that kept coming up.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, Lackey is making the jump from social media (where he has 7 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube) to feature filmmaking.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon<\/a>, Blumhouse Atomic Monster<\/a> and Spooky Pictures<\/a> are teaming up on Lust, a movie Lackey wrote and will direct. He\u2019ll have steady horror hands guiding him, with Paranormal Activity veteran Steven Schneider<\/a> producing for Spooky Pictures, and Jason Blum<\/a> and James Wan<\/a> producing for Blumhouse Atomic Monster. The logline is being kept under wraps, with Neon and Blumhouse Atomic Monster co-financing the project.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe move comes after Lackey built an audience with short-form horror and the Mike Flanagan-produced liminal-space short You Are Here on the festival circuit last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnline, Lackey has starred in much of his content and is known for embracing absurd premises, such as a monster watching him do laundry.<\/p>\n

\n\tLackey told\u00a0Dread Central\u00a0<\/a>last year, \u201cIndustry folks are starting to take digital creators more seriously. Sure, there\u2019s a difference between making a TikTok and making a feature, but a lot of the same creative muscles are being exercised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, Barker\u2019s Obsession<\/a> and Parsons\u2019 Backrooms became the dominant box office story of the summer, showing that a new generation of filmmakers<\/a> can attract audiences to theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tLackey is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment, WME and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few months ago, The Hollywood Reporter informally surveyed agents, managers and producers about who could be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131253,93,61,60,21918,1929,270,17453,262569,172714,262570],"class_list":["post-618705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-blumhouse-atomic-monster","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-wan","tag-jason-blum","tag-movies","tag-neon","tag-spencer-lackey","tag-spooky-pictures","tag-steven-schneider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}