Kate Siegel Would Love to Expand Her Beautifully Gruesome V/H/S/Beyond Segment Into a Feature

Kate Siegel is well-known to fearfulness fans for her dynamic array of performances wrong the genre—often moving with her hubby and originative partner, Mike Flanagan. Their projects unneurotic see (deep breath) Oculus, Hush (which Siegel co-wrote), Ouija: Origin of Evil, and Gerald’s Game, arsenic good arsenic Netflix bid The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. You tin present adhd V/H/S/Beyond to that list—with a spot of a relation reversal, since Flanagan wrote it and Siegel directed, making her debut down the camera.

Their V/H/S/Beyond conception is titled “The Stowaway;” it’s the past introduction successful the movie different than the decision of the framework story. An unsettling blend of first-contact wonderment and assemblage horror, it follows the awkward yet determined Halley (Alanah Pearce) arsenic she roams a lonely pouch of California’s Mojave Desert, intent connected capturing impervious of UFO enactment successful the area. We won’t spoil wherever her travel leads, but successful the build-up to its memorably ghastly climax, “Stowaway” creates a nuanced representation of idiosyncratic who’s intelligibly reeling from caller trauma successful her life, and who’s hoping to find immoderate caller intent successful her extraterrestrial explorations.

Speaking to Variety, Siegel said she’d leap astatine the accidental to grow Halley’s story: “I would emotion to marque this a feature. There is simply a immense feature-length communicative successful it that I’d emotion to tell.”

And there’s precedent for that; truthful far, 2 diagnostic films person been made that grow connected their V/H/S origins: 2016’s SiREN, drawn from “Amateur Night” successful 2012’s V/H/S, and 2022’s Kids vs. Aliens, from “Slumber Party Alien Abduction” successful 2013’s V/H/S/2.

Though it sounds similar she had a blast making “Stowaway,” saying “I find it precise breathtaking to person a caller mode to archer a story,” Siegel isn’t walking distant from acting to prosecute directing full-time. “I’m not giving up acting—I’m conscionable being a small much picky present due to the fact that I person thing that takes each of maine that I consciousness similar doing,” she told the trade. “I’ll ever reply the telephone for a large story, whether that is arsenic a manager oregon a shaper oregon an actress.”

As for moving with Flanagan, beyond the information that they’re married, she is drawn to his “honesty and respect,” adjacent erstwhile he’s telling her thing she mightiness not privation to perceive (or vice versa): “He’ll springiness maine the constructive disapproval I need, oregon I volition springiness him the disapproval helium needs … erstwhile you’re making millions and millions of choices, the worldly that gets done is the astir honorable and direct.”

You tin watercourse V/H/S/Beyond connected Shudder now.

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