{"id":912631,"date":"2026-11-10T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912631\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:50:08","slug":"kiah-roache-turner-reunites-with-alyla-browne-on-horror-dont-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912631\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiah Roache-Turner Reunites With Alyla Browne on Horror Don’t Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAustralian genre filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner<\/a> (\u201cSting,\u201d \u201cBeast of War\u201d) is set to direct upcoming horror \u201cDon\u2019t Look,\u201d reuniting him with fast-rising star (and fellow antipodean) Alyla Browne<\/a> (\u201cFuriosa\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film \u2014\u00a0which was previously entitled \u201cFrom Below\u201d and was to be the directorial debut of writer Sean Loch \u2014\u00a0is being sold by Cornerstone at the American Film Market<\/a>. Roache-Turner \u2014\u00a0currently in post on WWI action-horror movie \u201cLady Death\u201d \u2014\u00a0has taken over directing duties due to scheduling issues.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDon\u2019t Look\u201d is described as a \u201cfresh take\u201d on the road movie horror, where the \u201ctrue source of fear remains elusive and unseen.\u201d Speaking to Variety, Roache-Turner simply said it was \u201cscary as all hell\u201d with scenes are \u201cgoing to traumatise people very deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSet against the backdrop of the Australian outback, the film follows 15-year-old Riley (Browne), travelling across the outback with her father when they come across two seemingly abandoned cars at an isolated desert crossing. When an invisible force drags her father away Riley finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a terrifying creature that is only visible to its next victim.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Browne \u2014 who starred in Roache-Turner\u2019s spider horror \u201cSting\u201d and whose credits also include \u201cSonic the Hedgehog 3\u201d and \u201cNine Perfect Strangers\u201d \u2014 will appear alongside George Pullar (\u201cEvil Dead Burn\u201d), Masha Basman (\u201cBay of Fires\u201d) and Stephen Peacocke (\u201cMe Before You\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDon\u2019t Look\u201d was developed with filmmaker Joel Anderson (\u201cLate Night with the Devil,\u201d \u201cLake Mungo\u201d). Loch\u2019s original screenplay was featured on The Black List, trending under \u201cTop Horror Scripts\u201d for six weeks. Producers include Blake Northfield (\u201cLady Death,\u201d \u201cBeast of War\u201d) and Sam Price (\u201cRear View Mirror,\u201d \u201cLeech\u201d) <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to Variety, Roache-Turner discusses boarding the project and working once more with Browne. <\/p>\n

\t\tWhat was it about \u2018Dont Look\u2019 that drew you in?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tQuite simply that it was one of the best scripts I\u2019ve ever read. I was intrigued at first by the premise and the idea of a single-location, desert-set creature feature. When Sean approached me with the idea of directing it my tongue nearly got whiplash I said yes so fast.<\/p>\n

\t\t\u2018Don\u2019t Look\u2019 is described as a \u2018fresh take\u2019 on the road movie horror. Can you explain a little more about this?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m a big fan of the road movie horror genre \u2013 I can\u2019t get enough of films like \u201cWolf Creek, \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre,\u201d \u201cThe Hitcher\u201d and \u201cJeepers Creepers.\u201d But what I found refreshing about \u201cDon\u2019t Look\u201d was the layered and fertile character work; how the emotional setups were handled with such precision and how they all paid off so cleverly in the final act. It also helps that the central creature feels truly original, terrifying and disturbing in a way that I\u2019ve never seen portrayed in a monster movie before.<\/p>\n

\t\tYou\u2019re reuniting with Alyla Brown after Sting. How excited are you about that? Have you been keeping in touch with her since then (and following her impressive career)?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI am extremely excited to be working with Alyla again! We\u2019ve certainly kept in touch. Every time I see her on a new movie poster it makes me happy. She\u2019s going to be a massive star one day so I want to make as many films with her as I can before she gets too famous and Spielberg snaps her up. She was 12 when we started filming \u201cSting\u201d and even back then she was one of the most naturally talented and professional actors I\u2019ve ever worked with. She turned 17 halfway through the filming of our last collaboration [a family film about endurance riding called \u201cChiquita\u201d). But her character in \u201cDon\u2019t Look\u201d is a lot darker and deeper than anything we\u2019ve done before. <\/p>\n

\t\tSo far you\u2019ve battled zombies, giant spiders, sharks, and whatever the monsters in \u201cLady Death\u201d are. What sort of horrors are we up against in \u201cDon\u2019t Look\u201d\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, I don\u2019t want to give the game away but we\u2019re up against a monster that I\u2019ve never really seen before onscreen. It\u2019s such weird creature and so beautifully and horrifically creepy that I\u2019ve decided to change my entire visual style just to accommodate Sean\u2019s insanely original narrative. All I can say at this stage is that it\u2019s as scary as all hell and there are scenes in this movie that are going to traumatise people very deeply. Of course, those are the scenes I\u2019m most looking forward to directing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian genre filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (\u201cSting,\u201d \u201cBeast of War\u201d) is set to direct upcoming horror \u201cDon\u2019t Look,\u201d reuniting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[131968,381349,143181,88,102360,206],"class_list":["post-912631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-afm","tag-alyla-browne","tag-american-film-market","tag-entertainment","tag-kiah-roache-turner","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}