Neon Sinner
A grief-stricken video artist inherits a haunted karaoke bar in the Georgia backwoods — and the mic doesn't just record voices.
Synopsis
When 32-year-old video artist Rae inherits her estranged uncle's roadside karaoke bar in rural Georgia, she treats it as a project — a chance to grieve on her own terms. But the bar's vintage recording equipment starts playing back voices no one has sung into it. As Rae untangles the tape she's become part of, she realizes the previous owner didn't die — he was rewritten. "Neon Sinner" is elevated horror in the tradition of Skinamarink and Hereditary: analog-grain, patient, and hallucinatory.
Credits
Director
Elena Vasquez
Producer
Marcus Chen
Screenplay
Elena Vasquez & Priya Ramaswamy
Director of Photography
Attached — pending paper
Lead (Rae)
Attached, LOI on file — name pending public disclosure
Casting
Rich Delia Casting
Executive Producer
Kudzu Static Films
Festivals
- Verified
Fantasia International Film Festival · 2025
Cheval Noir — Best Director (previous film)
- Verified
SXSW Midnight · 2024
- Projected / unverified
TIFF Midnight Madness — projected 2027 · 2027
Awards
- Cheval Noir Best Director (director's previous feature, Fantasia 2025)
- IFP Emerging Storyteller Fellowship (director, 2023)
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