District 9 director made the movie during lockdown.
“The main character is a girl whose been estranged from her mother,” theDistrict 9andElysiumfilmmaker tells EW.
I would say it has a crossover between science fiction and horror."
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Blomkamp shot the film after the start of the pandemic.
It grew and it got bigger than films likeParanormal Activitybut it was cut from the same cloth really.
So that’s what it is.
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The cast ofDemonicincludes Carly Pope, Chris William Martin, and Michael Rogers.
It was a pretty cool close-knit group of friends working on something."
Blomkamp is not the only director who made a horror film during lockdown.
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I emailed Ben and I was like, ‘Are you also shooting a COVID horror film right now?’
and he was like, ‘Yes, yes, I am.’
So that was pretty awesome.
IFC Midnight will releaseDemonicin theaters Aug. 20. and on VOD/Digital Aug. 27.
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