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Samuel Goldwyn Films Takes Horror Movie ‘The Moogai’ From ‘Talk To Me’ & ‘The Babadook’ Producers


EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken North American to the Sundance Film Festival 2024 premiere, The Moogai from Bankside Films. A May theatrical release is in the works. The Australian horror movie comes from Causeway Films which produced such genre hits as The Babadook and Talk to Me. In the movie, Sarah and Fergus, a […]

Written and directed by Jon Bell, The Moogai stars Shari Sebbens, Meyne Wyatt, Tessa Rose, Bella Heathcote and Toby Leonard Moore. The Moogai went on to play at South by Southwest and the Sydney Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Australian Feature. At our Sundance studio in an interview with Matt Grobar, Sebbens said on her draw to reteam with Bell following their work together on series The Gods of Wheat Street, “The script, for me personally, the reason I’m drawn to it is Jon’s writing genre.

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