EXCLUSIVE: Sierra McCormick, Francesca Xuereb and Cailyn Rice have been unveiled for the cast of supernatural horror thriller Sigil as Concourse Media launches sales at the AFM.
The film, which is slated to begin principal photography next January, is written by William Wright Anderson and Katharine Meadows. Anderson also directs with Tyler Condon.
McCormick, Xuereb and Rice star as three young women who gather to perform an occult ritual orchestrated by their recently deceased friend.
The girls blindly follow their dead friend’s cryptic instructions only to realize that they are the final pieces in a deadly puzzle she set in motion before her death. What begins as a ritual to have their deepest wishes granted soon twists into a waking nightmare of survival and betrayal.
McCormick’s credits include Last Stop in Yuma County and sci-fi hit The Vast of Night. Xuereb, who debuted in Murmur, has since appeared in in Room 203, Ted, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and Pam & Tommy. Rice was seen in Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western series, 1923 and has recently joined the cast of Euphoria.
“We’re incredibly excited to support Tyler and Will’s dark, visionary storytelling,” said Matthew Shreder of Concourse Media. “Sigil is the kind of bold, psychological horror that lives under your skin. Cinematic, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling.”
Co-directors Condon and Anderson, whose past producing work includes films like the Aaron Eckhart spy thriller Chief of Station and Valley Girl, describe Sigil as “a slow-burn possession story that explores faith as both salvation and contagion.”
Condon said: “In a world obsessed with self-transformation, Sigil asks what happens when those desires take on a life of their own.”
Anderson added: “We wanted to take the occult thriller and push it somewhere new, keeping it raw and grounded, where every drop of blood means something, and the fear comes from what’s inside the characters as much as what’s haunting them.”
The film’s co-producer Matt Boda of production outfit Get It Made pointed to the fact the film is shooting in L.A.
“By keeping production and post in LA, we’re not only making something special, we’re creating some much needed jobs for local crew in the process,” he said.
Lola Visual Effects (Deadpool and Wolverine, Barbie, Top Gun) is also producing and will handle post-production and VFX on the film. Casting was handled by Sig De Miguel and Stephen Vincent of S2 Casting.