As we wind down towards the end of the year, the amount of horror hitting our screens has lightened, especially now that Halloween is behind us. But the global horror scene still has a few treats in store for us, with Variety debuting the first image from the upcoming Italian film Beasts of Prey, featuring Oddity star Carolyn Bracken.
The first image is heartbreaking, with Bracken clutching what one must assume is her child, crying out in anguish. That seems in line with the description for the psychological thriller, which stars Bracken as a rich art collector whose life has been shattered. “Destroyed by this unbearable pain,” the logline reads, “An instinctive and primordial nature awakens in her that will lead her to destroy her privileged life and build a new idea of family.” The film is described as a “complex and thrilling story about the never-ending struggle between the rational and the animal side of human nature.”
Beasts of Prey is directed by Andrea Corsini, which serves as an expansion of her 2019 short film of the same name, and her first feature length film. The project is shooting now in the north of Italy, also starring Caroline Goodall and produced by Francesco Grisi and Giorgia Priolo for EDI Effetti Digitali Italian, with sales launching this week through PiperFilm.
Bracken most recently starred in Oddity, the Irish folk horror film also starring Gwilym Lee about a woman who travels to her deceased sister’s remote home in order to figure out the truth about her murder — all the while toting a life-sized wooden figure of a man that’s more than it seems. The film was one of Shudder’s many stellar releases for 2024, including In a Violent Nature, Azrael, and Late Night With the Devil, giving audiences an opportunity to see new kinds of terrifying stories on the big screen and in their homes.
No release date has been set for Beasts of Prey, but audiences can catch Bracken in Oddity on Shudder in the meantime.
