Two cars sit abandoned at a desert crossing in the Australian outback, and the thing that takes the driver can only be seen by whoever it is coming for next. That is the premise of Don’t Look, which Kiah Roache-Turner will direct with Furiosa star Alyla Browne in the lead.
Variety’s Alex Ritman broke the project on Tuesday. Browne plays Riley, fifteen, crossing the outback with her father when an invisible force drags him away and leaves her to fight something she cannot watch coming. George Pullar (Evil Dead Burn), Masha Basman (Bay of Fires) and Stephen Peacocke co-star.
The screenplay is Sean Loch’s, and it was going to be his directing debut before scheduling moved him out of the chair. It landed on the Black List and spent six weeks on the site’s Top Horror Scripts list. Joel Anderson, who directed Lake Mungo, co-developed it. The film carried the title From Below until now.
Wyrmwood Ran on the Same Roads
Roache-Turner built his name on Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, the 2014 feature that put a zombie outbreak on Australian back roads and never let its characters stop driving. Don’t Look returns him to that landscape with an enemy nobody gets to look at. He is in post-production on the First World War horror Lady Death, and Beast of War is his as well.
He Has Made a Creature Movie With Her Before
Browne played the girl who raises the spider in Sting, Roache-Turner’s 2024 creature feature set inside a New York apartment building. She has since turned up in Furiosa, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Nine Perfect Strangers. Roache-Turner called her “one of the most naturally talented and professional actors I’ve ever worked with,” and said that seeing her on a new poster makes him happy.
On the new one he was blunt. He called Loch’s screenplay “one of the best scripts I’ve ever read,” described the film as “scary as all hell,” and said there are scenes “going to traumatise people very deeply.” He also said the creature is something he has never really seen onscreen.
Blake Northfield and Sam Price produce, and Cornerstone is taking the film to buyers at the American Film Market. An invisible monster is a promise a creature-feature director has to keep twice: once by holding it offscreen, and once by whatever he finally shows.