Genre giant Shudder has acquired supernatural crime thriller Reflections in a Dead Diamond from directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Deadline reports today.
Deadline details that the deal covers North America, the U.K. and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, with plans to release the film exclusively on the streamer in 2025.
Golden Globe-winning Italian actor Fabio Testi (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria De Medeiros and Céline Camara are set to star. An official synopsis reads as follows:
Reflection in a Dead Diamond takes place following the disappearance of a mysterious woman, as a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur gets “confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide,”
The thriller will also introduce newcomer Thi Mai Nguyen, and will have its world premiere at Berlin Film Festival later this month.
Cattet and Forzani are best known for the 2013 giallo The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears and gritty Neo-western thriller Let the Corpses Tan from 2017. They also contributed the O is for Orgasm short to the 2012 anthology horror The ABCs Of Death.
Shudder’s VP of programming Samuel Zimmerman expressed his excitement for the acquisition of their latest feature:
“Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani are simply two of the greatest genre filmmakers in the world. Each film, an event […] Reflection in a Dead Diamond furthers their spectacular giallo and Eurothriller-inspired visions into newly exhilarating territory. This is a must-see spectacle, and Shudder is wildly excited to release it.”
Check out the first trailer for Reflection in a Dead Diamond below, and check out more Shudder news right here.
