Rising style filmmaker Caleb Phillips has signed with Underground, the corporate that’s driving excessive because of shopper Curry Barker’s field workplace hit Obsession.
The transfer comes after the South by Southwest premiere of Phillips’ cosmic horror thriller Imposters, the place it landed an early Rotten Tomatoes critics rating of 93 p.c out of the fest’s Midnighter part and is producing curiosity amongst potential patrons.
Phillips wrote and directed the genre-bending Imposters, which stars Jessica Rothe as a mom determined to get her child boy again after he’s taken. When she learns of a solution to get her son house, her husband (Charlie Barnett) begins to suspect the newborn that returned just isn’t really theirs.
Phillips first made waves along with his quick Different Facet of the Field, which amassed greater than 30 million views on YouTube and centered on a pair who is presented a mysterious field, to disastrous and creepy outcomes. That property feels extra related than ever within the wake of the outsized success of Kane Parsons’ The Backrooms, which started life as a collection of standard YouTube shorts and broke A24 data final weekend.
Phillips adopted it up with the mind-bending quick Play Me, a couple of girl who wakes up in a automotive with no reminiscence and discovers a person tied up within the again, and a voice recorder with a word: “play me.”
For Imposters, Phillips teamed with producers Thomas Bond, Sara Seligman and Joe Bandelli, with Blue Finch Movies repping it for international distribution. Its solid additionally consists of Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilder, Luisina Quarleri, Thomas Parobek, Ian Lyons, Taylor Karin, Lee Bennett and Declan Bennett.
Phillips is a Los Angeles Movie Faculty grad who broke into the directing enterprise whereas working as a crewmember on quite a few tasks.
Supervisor Aaron Folbe and Underground principal Trevor Engelson will rep the filmmaker.
