Description
Step inside the world of Lurker FIRST; this sneak peek event is exclusively for SFFILM members. Online fixation meets reality in this parasocial, paranoid film driven by a brilliant score and star-making performances.
When twenty-something Los Angeles retail clerk and loner Matthew (Théodore Pellerin) encounters rising pop star Oliver (Saltburn’s Archie Madekwe), he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But staying there isn’t easy.
With an entire entourage (Bottoms’s Havana Rose Liu, Abbott Elementary’s Zack Fox, Y2K’s Daniel Zolghadri, mid90s’ Sunny Suljic) vying for attention, Matthew must prove himself to Oliver as more than just a follower. As their bond grows strained and mainstream fame appears within reach, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
The directorial debut from The Bear and Beef writer-producer Alex Russell, Lurker is an exhilarating cat-and-mouse thriller made for the moment.
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Alex Russell is the writer & director behind Lurker, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. He most recently served as a Co-Executive Producer on Netflix/A24’s Beef, for which he won an Emmy award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. And he was recently a supervising Producer on FX’s The Bear. His episode–ep 207–titled “Forks,” was one of the best reviewed episodes of television last year and nominated for a WGA award. He got his start as a staff writer on the first two seasons of Dave–and was also recently a Producer on Hulu’s series Interior Chinatown.
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Film Details
LanguageEnglish
Year2025
Runtime100
CountryUSA
DirectorAlex Russell
ProducerAlex Orlovsky, Duncan Montgomery, Jack Selby, Galen Core, Olmo Schnabel, Francesco Melzi D'Eril, Marc Marrie, Charlie McDowell, Archie Madekwe
WriterAlex Russell
EditorDavid Kashevaroff
CinematographerPat Scola
MusicKenneth Blume
CastThéodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Wale Onayemi, Daniel Zolghadri, Sunny Suljic
Print SourceMubi
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are available for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not currently confirmed for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film