A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Practical Effects
Glorious creature effects that feel tactile and wrong in the best way.
Cinematography
Italy shot like a fever dream of cobblestones and coastal decay.
Writing
Dialogue that actually makes you believe this romance deserves to survive.
Director
Aaron Moorhead
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moorhead and Benson shot this for roughly $50,000, doing their own VFX after teaching themselves online.
The film reimagines Lovecraftian cosmic horror as intimate romantic tragedy—Cthulhu mythos for the Tinder generation.
US
