{"id":233227,"date":"2025-10-30T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:56:10","slug":"influencer-director-to-helm-fomo-described-as-midsommar-meets-squid-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233227\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Influencer&#8217; Director to Helm &#8216;FOMO&#8217; Described as &#8216;Midsommar&#8217; Meets &#8216;Squid Game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurtis David Harder (Influencer, Spiral) has signed on to direct FOMO, a horror-thriller described as Midsommar meets \u201cSquid Game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film follows a party trip to the Greek islands that turns sinister when a group of friends realize they\u2019ve become unwilling participants in an ancient ritual with life-or-death stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Survive a series of hedonistic trials and be rewarded with an endless lifetime of pleasure; fail, and be offered as a sacrifice to the gods. The party only ends when the last man is standing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yalun Tu (\u201cNCIS: Hawai\u2019i\u201d) wrote the script.<\/p>\n<p>Badlands, the indie genre label founded by longtime Sony exec Scott Strauss alongside Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee\u2019s Thunder Road, is behind the project.<\/p>\n<p>Harder\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/exclusives\/3911237\/influencers-exclusive-poster-teases-bloodier-sequel-kills-ahead-of-december-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Influencers<\/a>, a sequel to his 2022 film, debuts on Shudder on December 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kurtis David Harder (Influencer, Spiral) has signed on to direct FOMO, a horror-thriller described as Midsommar meets \u201cSquid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,46719,98821,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-233227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-fomo","tag-kurtis-david-harder","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}