Searchlight Pictures’ latest film, the psychological horror-thriller, Hold Your Breath, arrived on Hulu on October 3 and takes viewers to 1930s Oklahoma during the region’s horrific dust storms, referred to as the Dust Bowl. Co-directed by Will Joines (The Push) and Karrie Crouse (Westworld), the film stars Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story, Ratched), Annaleigh Ashford (Welcome to Chippendales, B Positive), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear, Girls), Amiah Miller (My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Lights Out), Alona Jane Robbins, and Bill Heck (The Old Man, Locke & Key).
The film follows the Bellum family whose “house rests in a valley of dirt as clouds of dust blot out the sun. Margaret (Sarah Paulson) and her two daughters, Rose (Amiah Miller) and Ollie (Alona Jane Robbins), tend to their sparse farm while Margaret’s husband has left in pursuit of work. As they struggle to survive the punishing Dust Bowl environment, a mysterious stranger (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) arrives, threatening all they know and love. But is the threat a closer one?”
We were joined on the Popternative show by Hold Your Breath lead Amiah Miller and co-directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines to discuss the new film, including the research that went into creating a horror film around the real Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Watch the full conversations below.
Hold Your Breath is now streaming on Hulu.
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