Boy Harsher, the darkwave electronic duo of vocalist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller, are shooting a feature film with Chloë Sevigny in the starring role, and they’ve tapped a few striking musicians to join the cast. The movie, dubbed The Lonely Woman, stars FKA twigs, Sturgill Simpson, Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy), and Jake Weary, among others. News of the casting was first reported by Deadline.
The Lonely Woman is billed as “a bleak, sensual, and atmospheric horror-thriller” featuring a score by Boy Harsher themselves. Hunter Zimny is the movie’s director of photography, while Madeline Sadowski (who’s worked on Good Time and Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” video) is the production designer.
The Lonely Woman is set in rural New England and follows a woman who was marked by the death of her first love in a mountain tunnel. As she’s drawn into the mystery of a new disappearance, she begins confronting a seductive and terrifying presence buried beneath the town.
This isn’t Boy Harsher’s first foray into the world of cinema. The duo penned the soundtrack to the 2022 short film The Runner , and green-lit the song “Pain” to appear in Terrifier 2, too. The Lonely Woman, however, marks Boy Harsher’s first time directing a movie. Their most recent full-length album, Careful , came out in 2019.
A few days ago, FKA twigs released EUSEXUA Afterglow , a new album paired with a reimagined version of her third studio album, EUSEXUA , from this past January. It includes the singles “Cheap Hotel” and “Hard.” Revisit Madison Bloom’s column “Hard Beats, Bondage, and Body Paint: What Went Down at FKA twigs’ New York Eusexua Rave.”