The Empty Man
Director: David Prior
2020 / 137min / 4K DCP
One of the most original and visually striking horror feature debuts in recent memory—thanks in no small part to the air of ambient dread sustained by Anastas Michos’s photography—The Empty Man, a burgeoning cult phenomenon, follows burned-out ex-detective James Badge Dale on an investigation into the disappearance of a friend’s teenaged daughter that leads him into a hidden world of eerie idolatry, eldritch evil, and psyche-shattering terror.
“The Empty Man is about what moves in when belief moves out. People get so hungry for meaning that they’ll take any signal from any source. In 2020, it was a horror film. In 2026, it’s the evening news.” —Anastas Michos, ASC
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century
Q&A with cinematographer Anastas Michos on Sunday, December 13th
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