Kyle Edward Ball, the writer and director behind the 2023 horror film Skinamarink, has signed on with A24 for his next movie.
According to Variety, the film is titled The Land of Nod, and Ball will once again write and direct. The project comes after the critical and commercial success of Skinamarink, which Ball made for only $15,000 but garnered over $2 million at the box office. In it, two young children are trapped in their house where all the doors and windows and parental figures have vanished, replaced by a stalking, malevolent presence. You can get the vibes of the movie from the image above, which captures the desperate fear that seeps through the entire film.
While we don’t have any details on the plot of Nod, Ball told Variety in a 2022 interview that he was mulling over two ideas at the time: a story inspired by the legend of the Pied Piper and one about three people who see the same house in a dream. There’s no confirmation on whether either of those stories turned into The Land of Nod, but if I had to choose one given the title, I’d go for the spooky house people see in their dreams.
The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on when it will go into production or end up on screens across the globe. Given the unsettling nature of Skinamarink, however, the movie is likely to be a disturbing one.
