Lily Sullivan is about to see her repulsion visibility rise exponentially — she star in Evil Dead Rise , which release in April — but today , io9 has the exclusive annoyer premiere of another music genre pic she ’ll soon appear in : Monolith , an Australian sci - fi thriller screening inthe SXSW Film Festival ’s “ Midnighters ” curriculum .
Directed by Matt Vesely and compose by Lucy Campbell , Monolith star Sullivan as a disruptive journalist who enters self - imposed isolation , then becomes convinced she ’s stumbled onto the story of a lifetime . Her subsequent solo investigation may or may not require extraterrestrial being . tick out the teaser !
The prescribed abstract for Monolith is as follows : “ A bold skill fiction thriller featuring one cleaning lady , one location , and a mystery expose through audio — in which a immature diary keeper get word a strange artifact and begin to convince herself it is grounds of an foreign conspiracy . Recently disgraced and desperate for a story , the Interviewer hole out herself up in her parents ’ luxurious home and gets to work on the only line of work she can get — hosting a clickbait fact-finding podcast . When she receives an anonymous email leading her to a retired housekeeper who lay claim her life has been ruin by a strange black-market brick , the Interviewer embarks on a mystery that leads her down a rabbit muddle of the true and lie at the heart of her own story . ”
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Conspiracies , rabbit holes , foreign artifacts , a character getting lost in her own brain , a mystery that unfolds through a patchwork of different voices ? Yep , we ’re intrigued . Monolith screensMarch 13 , 14 , and 18 at SXSW ; it is actively seeking a distributor and does not yet have a discharge date .
Correction : An earlier version of this post incorrectly said Monolith already has a distributer ; io9 regrets the computer error .
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