Boy Harsher, the darkwave electronic duo of vocalist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller, is now venturing into the world of feature films with their first directorial project The Lonely Woman. It will reportedly star a number of prominent musicians, including FKA twigs, Sturgill Simpson, Will Oldham AKA Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Jake Weary, and Chloë Sevigny, among others.
The film is billed as “a bleak, sensual, and atmospheric horror–thriller” featuring a score by Boy Harsher themselves. Hunter Zimny is the movie’s director of photography, while Madeline Sadowski (Good Time, Chappell Roan’s “The Subway”) is the production designer.
As Deadline reports, The Lonely Woman is set in rural New England and follows a woman who was marked by the death of her first love in a mountain tunnel. As she’s drawn into the mystery of a new disappearance, she begins confronting a seductive and terrifying presence buried beneath the town.
Boy Harsher’s previous film experience includes a soundtrack to the 2022 short film The Runner, and green-lit their song “Pain” to appear in Terrifier 2 as well. However, The Lonely Woman is Boy Harsher’s first time directing a movie. Their most recent full-length album, Careful, came out in 2019.
