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One womans world is coming undone in Colliders exclusive trailer premiere for The Unraveling. The latest project to come from Entertainment Squads genre label, The Horror Collective, is a gripping piece of cinema that leans into the sub-genre of trauma. Starring Sarah Zanotti and directed by Kd Amond, the film serves as a reunion for the duo who co-founded Az if Productions, which previously brought audiences 2021s Faye. The Unraveling, which will arrive on-demand and digital on October 8, is a true psychological trip into the trauma-addled brain of a woman who is putting her life back together after an almost fatal car accident nearly took it all away.

The follow-up to what is considered America's very first one-woman feature-length horror film just got a major release update. The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively confirmed that The Unraveling, the 2023 psychological horror film starring Sarah Zanotti, Sam Brooks, Katherine Morgan, and Ali Alsaleh will be released later this year on October 8. The film comes from director Kd Amond, who is also credited as a writer with leading star Zanotti also having credit for the screenplay. The film is a direct sequel to Faye, the 2021 horror flick which Amond also wrote, directed, and starred in, alongside Zanotti, who will play Mary in the sequel.

Entertainment Squad, the boutique distribution company founded by Shaked Berenson, has acquired worldwide rights to the psychological thriller The Unraveling from Az If Productions and will release the movie on Oct. 8 under its genre label The Horror Collective.

The company will bring the film to English-speaking territories, handling its release in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland itself, and working with its partner Radioactive Pictures on the release in Australia and New Zealand, while selling the rights to the film in other countries.

Directed by Kd Amond, The Unraveling is a follow-up to Amond’s movie Faye, which the company says was “America’s first one-woman feature-length horror film.” On both projects, Amond collaborated with Sarah Zanotti who is the co-writer and lead actor of both films. The Unraveling also stars Sam Brooks (Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, CW’s Stargirl).

“The Unraveling offers a chilling and deeply emotional exploration of trauma,...

Stars: Sarah Zanotti | Written by Sarah Zanotti, Kd Amond | Directed by Kd Amond

Faye Ryan, played by Sarah Zanotti (Rattled), is a successful self-help author who’s grieving the recent loss of her husband. She retreats to a secluded cabin, on the beautiful Louisiana bayou, to complete her latest book and work through the pain of bereavement only to discover something much more sinister at play. Tormented by the past and paralysed by grief, it quickly becomes clear that there’s more than just the past haunting her and Faye realises that she must confront her demons, both physical and phantom, if she hopes to move forward with her life…

Sarah Zanotti and director Kd Amond, who previously worked together on the indie horror Rattled, return for another small-scale horror, Faye, which follows the titular character and Only the titular character. For Faye is literally a one-woman horror movie, with...

The difficulty with a lot of popular horror fare is that whilst it might be entertaining, it doesn’t go very deep, and if one has experienced any real trauma in life it simply glances off the surface. Faye is horror of a different kind. Here, everything is driven by the kind of horrific real life experience which is all too common and leaves people facing what seems like endless pain, with no idea how to go on with their lives.

Faye (Sarah Zanotti) is a writer in the early stages of her career. She has published a successful self help book and won a lot of fans in the process, but everything has since gone off the rails. Jacob, the man she loved, is dead – and worse, the car crash which killed him occurred on a night when he wouldn’t have gone out if she hadn’t persuaded him to,...

Kd Amond’s cabin fever tale about a self-help author suffering from writer’s block mostly features one character who talks too much

Mostly featuring a single performer on screen, Kd Amond’s cabin fever horror unspools as one long monologue. The formal gambit has a literary, theatrical feel – which is appropriate enough as the plot revolves around Faye (Sarah Zanotti), a popular self-help author suffering from a grievous writer’s block. Yet, this is no simple case of procrastination: sent by her publisher to a remote lodge for a writing retreat, Faye is forced to confront her mental turmoil following the loss of her husband Jacob. What follows are live Instagram rantings, one-sided conversations with her deceased partner, and even drunken taunting of unseen evil spirits.

For a genre that depends primarily on atmosphere and mood, this is an unusually talky horror: Faye’s psychological spiral in the cabin...