A24 Quietly Builds Its Next Horror Film as Arkasha Stevenson Assembles a Stacked Cast

Arkasha Stevenson’s next A24 horror film takes shape with a cast that signals a darker, more controlled direction.

A24 isn’t saying much about its next horror film, but the way this one is coming together says more than any logline could right now.

Per Deadline, Katelyn Rose Downey, Fabien Frankel, Suzanna Son, and Emory Cohen have joined Arkasha Stevenson’s upcoming, currently untitled horror project for A24. The film marks Stevenson’s follow-up to The First Omen, her 2024 studio debut that didn’t explode commercially but did establish her as a director with a clear handle on tone, pacing, and controlled dread.

They join a cast that’s already quietly stacked—Josh Hutcherson, Caleb Landry Jones, Whitmer Thomas, Emma Corrin, Havana Rose Liu, Hunter Schafer, and Sophie Wilde were previously reported—while Frank Dillane is no longer attached. Plot details are being kept under wraps, though the film is said to center around a bachelor party that spirals into something far darker.

And that’s really where this becomes interesting.

This isn’t A24 rolling out a concept and building hype around it. This is the opposite. No title. No visuals. No release window. Just a director and a cast being assembled with intention. That’s a different kind of confidence.

Because if you look at the names being added, the tone starts to reveal itself.

Suzanna Son brings a very specific energy—offbeat, uncomfortable, character-first work that leans into psychological space more than traditional genre mechanics. Emory Cohen adds weight and grit, someone who doesn’t play things clean or easy. Fabien Frankel carries that crossover appeal from prestige television into something that can move between grounded and elevated. Even Katelyn Rose Downey, coming off The Nun II, adds a bridge between studio horror and something more restrained.

Put that together, and this doesn’t read like a conventional slasher or a crowd-pleasing genre swing. It reads like something slower, more atmospheric, something built around behavior, tension, and unraveling rather than spectacle.

That tracks with Stevenson’s trajectory. The First Omen showed she’s not interested in rushing scares or overloading the frame. This next project feels like a step deeper into that space—less about proving she can deliver within a franchise, more about defining what her version of horror actually is.

Behind the scenes, the film is being produced under Ari Aster’s Square Peg banner, with Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner producing and Aster executive producing alongside Tim Smith, Harrison Huffman, and Christine D’Souza. That alone reinforces the direction—filmmaker-driven, tone-forward, and not built around immediate mass appeal.

There’s no trailer to break down. No images to analyze. Just pieces being put in place.

But right now, that’s the story.