Alicia Witt, known for her star role opposite Nicolas Cage in the blockbuster ‘Longlegs’, will star alongside María Camila Giraldo (“The Ritual”) in the upcoming Colombian horror thriller ‘Incuba Project’.
Chilean filmmaker Juan Pablo Arias will direct the English-language film, which is planned to be shot in Colombia.
“Incuba Project” is the first feature film from Red Script Factory, the writers room of Red Collision Studios founded in Colombia by producers Vanessa Gómez and Sebastián Caballero.
Red Collision Studios CEO Caballero said: “We are creating a slate of films made in Colombia for a global audience, with original stories developed in our own writers’ room. ‘Incuba Project’ is the clearest expression of this: a story rooted in Latin American reality, told with the scale and flair to travel anywhere.”
Written by Red Collision co-writer María Camila Caballero Páez (“Más allá de la lluvia”), the series follows Jhoana (played by Giraldo), a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to make ends meet and allow her to care for her young son.
She meets other women in similar situations at Maternity Incuba Care, which promises to help but on the condition that the women spend nine months of their pregnancy at a remote facility. As her pregnancy progresses, other women begin to disappear one by one. Jhoana uncovers the treacherous secret the agency is keeping. Witt plays Minerva, the agency’s head and caretaker of the women.
“‘Incuba Project’ has a premise rich in horror textures, offering many opportunities to create atmosphere and fear, but also carries a very specific line of political and social criticism. Not every film can achieve this combination. This is a project that can clearly and decisively walk the line between commercial and auteur filmmaking, and that’s what attracted me to it. I’m very happy that that’s what Red Collision wanted to do with the film,” he says, whose credits include “Casa.” Grande” with Lou Diamond Phillips and the horror film “The Curse of the Necklace” (2024) were released theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros.
“The genre of cinema has the power to reveal things that others choose not to talk about; ‘Get Out’ is a great example of this. In ‘Incuba Project,’ the horror is rooted in what is done to the female body: the exploitation of immigrant women seeking a better life for their families, who end up being exploited by a system that treats them as commodities,” said Gómez, executive producer at Red Collision Studios.
“We wanted to tell this story because Jhoana’s struggle is the struggle of millions of women whose bodies have been turned into work, and this film is our way of making sure they are no longer invisible,” she added.
The film marks Witt’s return to horror following Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” (2024) and Rebecca Kezian’s “Twisted” (2026) opposite Djimon Hounsou.
Giraldo recently starred opposite Al Pacino and Dan Stevens in the exorcism thriller “The Ritual” and with Amy Adams in Kornél Mundruczó’s “At Sea,” which screened in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Founded in 2017, Red Collision also operates production service company Film and post-production studio Magic Trick Post Lab in Colombia. Gómez and Caballero are part of a new generation of producers driving Colombia’s booming film industry, fueled by film incentives that increase international location shoots and local film production.
This isn’t the first time the company has tied up with Chile. In July, filming began on the five-country co-production produced with Chile’s Afro Films; “La puta Vida”, the movie “One Hundred Years of Solitude” starring Colombian actor Claudio Cataño.
Other films from Red Collision Studios include the thriller “The Judge’s Shadow,” the drama “A Different Alonso Quijano,” and “The Lagoon,” directed by Octavio Revol Molina, both directed by Libia Stella Gomez.