Pirates of the Caribbean and Titans star Brenton Thwaites has joined the cast of a new horror movie featuring an Avengers: Doomsday actress. The upcoming film, titled Can I Come In?, will feature Thwaites alongside Hannah John-Kamen, Willa Holland, Douglas Smith, Anja Savcic, and Henry Thomas.
The film was secretly shot in Toronto earlier this year and is currently in post-production. Can I Come In? is directed by Iranian Canadian director Rouzbeh Heydari, who previously helmed A Hundred Lives and Together Again, among others.
What we know about the new horror thriller Can I Come In?
The film follows Brenton Thwaites as Thomas, a carpenter whose wife, Katherine (John-Kamen), vanishes from the hospital parking lot after a night shift as a nurse. Tom is subsequently haunted by nightmares and an uneasy feeling that she is not entirely gone. The story takes a darker turn when Katherine returns to the porch, broken, and asks Thomas to let her in. Henry Thomas will play Tom’s father and the town sheriff.
“Can I Come In? explores the dark manifestation of unresolved trauma, and what happens when that trauma is left unchecked for generations,” Heydari said. The film is written by Jess Mastro & Nick Ruggia, with Chris K. Daniels and Michael G. Nathanson serving as producers.
“The horror films that speak to me are the ones that are character stories first, and genre second,” said Daniels. “This is a story about unprocessed grief in a family, told through the lens of a horror story. It’s the commonality in what we love so much in the space, with films like Together, Weapons and Smile.”
Can I Come In? is produced by The Launch Company’s Ontario production vertical, Launch North. Heydari added, “My approach was to ground the story in emotional truth and allow the surreal horror to emerge from everything these characters have spent their lives refusing to confront. We approached this as a story about a marriage, about love, grief, and the things we do to protect ourselves from pain. The things we bury don’t simply disappear. They fester, they take on a life of their own, and eventually, they come knocking.”
Thwaites previously featured in Two Years Later and We Bury the Dead. He also played Henry Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. He also played Dick Grayson in Titans.
No release date for Can I Come In? has been announced.