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EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American authorities to genre title Bagworm, nan characteristic debut from head Oliver Bernsen and writer Henry Bernsen.
The movie had its world premiere astatine nan 2025 Sitges Film Festival, wherever it won nan Panorama Section Audience Award, earlier making its North American premiere successful nan Visions Section astatine SXSW Film & TV Festival. It will adjacent play nan Fantasia International Film Festival up of its theatrical merchandise by Oscilloscope successful wintertime 2026.
Pic follows Carroll (Peter Falls), “a sexually disappointment hammer salesman, aft he steps connected a rusty nail, triggering a downward spiral and leaving him to find whether nan world is falling apart– aliases if he is.”
Along pinch Falls, nan movie besides stars Michelle Ortiz, Robbie Arnett, Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Borrello, Jessy Morner-Ritt, Sydney Winbush, and Francesca Galassi.
The movie was written by Henry Bernsen, and produced by Zoe Rosenberg. Deadline’s Damon Wise called nan film “a schematic and gruesome look wrong nan toxic world of nan manosphere.”
The woody for nan movie was negotiated by Aaron Katz, VP of Acquisitions astatine Oscilloscope Laboratories and producers connected behalf of nan filmmakers.
Aaron Katz, VP of Acquisitions astatine Oscilloscope Laboratories, added: “Bagworm is simply a feast for your senses. Oliver’s imagination is vivid and surreal, yet grounded successful Carroll’s humble knowing that nan world is going to shit, if only location were thing he could do astir it. The movie uses aspects of genre and scary to thrust location its worldview, yet location is dream done nan grime and nan bodily fluids that things could activity out. Bagworm is fantabulous and I americium thrilled Oscilloscope will beryllium bringing this cinematic fever dream to a theatre adjacent you. You cognize what, fuck it, Carroll for President 2028!”
