4 Horror Directors We’d Love To See Nicole Kidman Team Up With

Back in 2017, Kidman made a pledge to work with at least one female filmmaker every 18 months, and since then has far surpassed her goal, working with prolific women like Karyn Kusama, Mimi Cave and Halina Reijn. There's one female horror filmmaker that we need Kidman to team up with like, yesterday, and that's The Substance‘s Coralie Fargeat. With 2024's satirical beauty-standard-busting, Chainsaw Award-winning body horror, Fargeat proved she's got a keen eye for the way women, especially women considered ‘older' by Hollywood's ridiculous standards, are treated in the industry – a topic Kidman has also herself been outspoken on. While we're not sure what's next for the Oscar-nominated Ms. Fargeat (it won't be a Substance 2, that much is known) following The Substance will be a tough job, and Kidman is easily up to the challenge.

While Beau is Afraid and Eddington hint that Ari Aster seems to be leaning away from the genre that put him on the map, we'd love to see him return with full force to show the kids how it's done, and give Nicole Kidman a starring role while he's at it. Both of Aster's pure horror movies, Hereditary and Midsommar, feature absolute powerhouse performances from female leads (Toni Collette, we'll get you that Oscar somehow!), with rich, textured characters that are simply made for an actor like Nicole to sink her teeth into. She's also not shy at all about approaching some of the, err, taboo topics that Aster likes to get into, if her roles in Park Chan-wook's Stoker or Robert Eggers' The Northman are anything to go by.

Nicole being an Aussie icon, it's really only fitting that she take a spin with Australia's hottest up-and-coming horror directors – Talk to Me and Bring Her Back‘s Danny and Michael Philippou. Even with only two features under their belt, the Brothers Philippou (also known by their YouTube handle of RackaRacka) clearly know their stuff when it comes to crafting immaculate scares centered on incredible female performances, like Sophie Wilde in Talk to Me and Sally Hawkins in Bring Her Back. And hey, Hawkins and Kidman know each other from Paddington, so it's not totally beyond the realms of possibility that Sally slipped the Philippou's number into Nicole's bag, right? We sure hope so.

Nicole Kidman has said herself that she wants to work with X trilogy director Ti West, and a collaboration between the two seems like a match made in heaven. We'd love to see West follow up X, Pearl and MaXXXine with a fourth film in which Kidman plays Mia Goth's Hollywood co-star who feels some type of way about being upstaged by the new girl in town. Or maybe we'll see her pop up in his recently-announced Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol? She'd definitely rock a Victorian gown.