EXCLUSIVE: Harry Lawtey (Industry), Jodie Turner-Smith (Tron: Ares), Viola Prettejohn (The Testament of Ann Lee), and Burn Gorman (upcoming Frankenstein) have joined Olivia Cooke in Brides, the new Neon horror film from Chloe Okuno, which entered production in Budapest this week.

Brides finds Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband on a trip to Northern Italy in 1961, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova (Lawtey), who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women (Turner-Smith, Prettejohn) and their caretaker (Gorman). As Sally becomes entangled in their world of seduction, violence and illusion, she begins to lose her grip on time and self as her own dark transformation unfolds.

Gorman reunites with Okuno after playing a memorable enigma of a movie monster in her debut feature, Watcher.

Okuno is directing from her own script. Producers include Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu and Greg Zuk for Likely Story, with Manor Kill Media providing financing. Neon boarded North American rights to the film last year and will serve as its distributor. Focus International will release it internationally, with FilmNation in some territories.

Best known for starring in the first three seasons of the hit HBO/BBC series Industry, Lawtey recently portrayed famed actor Richard Burton in the film Mr Burton. Other notable credits include Joker: Folie à Deux and the upcoming Under Salt Marsh and Billion Dollar Spy. He is represented by CAA, Hamilton Hodell and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Breaking out with her starring role opposite Daniel Kaluuya in Universal’s Queen & Slim, Turner-Smith’s other credits include starring roles in Kogonada’s After Yang, Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn, Apple TV’s Bad Monkey and Noah Baumbach’s White Noise. Currently, she can be seen in Tron: Ares and Paramount+ with Showtime’s The Agency, which returns for its second season next year. She is repped by UTA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

Prettejohn portrayed a young Princess Elizabeth in the sixth season of Netflix’s The Crown and will next be seen in the musical drama The Testament of Ann Lee from The Brutalist scribe Mona Fastvold, which premiered in Venice ahead of a Christmas Day release. Other TV credits include Wolf Hall, The Witcher and Counterpart. She is repped by CAA, Insight Management & Production and Circle Management and Production.

Soon to be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the next film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Tom Cruise, Gorman’s other credits include Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Pinocchio, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Game of Thrones. He is repped by B-Side Management and Verve.