Overview
- Deadline exclusively reported Wednesday that Mike Flanagan's Red Room Pictures is producing Rot and that Alexandra Magistro will direct the film as her feature debut.
- The project is based on a 2024 Black List screenplay by Geo Bradley that follows an antisocial trauma cleaner haunted by his hoarder mother and has been described as “Repulsion by way of Cronenberg.”
- Matthew Lillard, Amber Midthunder and Cooper Koch are attached as the principal cast, with trade coverage noting casting overlaps with Flanagan’s upcoming Carrie series.
- Producers on the film include Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and Elan Gale of QWGmire and Red Room is slated to begin principal photography in Vancouver in November 2026.
- Magistro’s promotion from Red Room executive to director reinforces Flanagan’s in‑house talent pipeline and signals continued investment in intense, auteur‑driven body‑horror on the company’s slate.