{"id":104653,"date":"2025-05-15T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104653\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:30:08","slug":"psychological-horror-film-stay-with-me-is-it-follows-on-steroids-at-a-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104653\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Horror Film &#8216;Stay with Me&#8217; is &#8220;&#8216;It Follows&#8217; on Steroids&#8221; at a Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director\u00a0<strong>Alex Kahuam<\/strong> (Failure!) is prepping <strong>Stay with Me<\/strong>, a supernatural psychological horror film described as \u201c<strong>It Follows<\/strong> on steroids\u201d set against the backdrop of a music festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt features three compelling female leads and a truly terrifying entity. This high-concept horror film boasts a unique and striking style,\u201d the filmmaker told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/global\/alex-kahuam-cannes-fantastic-pavilion-remedy-1236395552\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m particularly thrilled about this project as it represents the most ambitious horror screenplay I\u2019ve written to date. After nearly three years of dedicated refinement, I\u2019m incredibly pleased with the current state of the script and believe it\u2019s fully prepared for production,\u201d Kahuam added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe central climax of the film draws inspiration from a life-threatening personal experience, which has been transformed into a chilling analogy within the horror narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to shoot by the end of the year, Kahuam is exploring the possibility of filming in Europe, with Hungary and Spain high on his list for potential locations, with some specific scenes in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with Me will mark the second collaboration between Kahuam Films and L.A.-based Sparta Productions after the supernatural horror film <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3865323\/fear-has-no-cure-on-the-remedy-poster-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Remedy<\/strong><\/a>, which is having its market premiere at Cannes.<\/p>\n<p>Kahuam is bringing three other projects to the market, including \u201ca horror slasher film in the vein of A24 and Neon, another supernatural horror film set in Europe that I co-wrote along with Estonian filmmaker-actress <strong>Christin Muuli<\/strong>, and a heist action thriller film I\u2019ve written.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writer-director\u00a0Alex Kahuam (Failure!) is prepping Stay with Me, a supernatural psychological horror film described as \u201cIt Follows on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[48146,77,48147,3943,48148,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-104653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alex-kahuam","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-it-follows","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-stay-with-me","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114514221578768685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}