Toronto-based film and television production company Wildling Pictures today announces Devour, the feature debut of rising Canadian filmmaker Erica Orofino (Dirty Bad Wrong, She Keeps Me). The female body psychological horror will be produced by Matt Code’s Wildling Pictures alongside co-producers Alison Almeida (Priscilla, Alice, Darling) and Lucy McNulty (Chicken, Hunting Matthew Nichols). Devour is co-written by Olivia Loccisano (First Blood, Pocket Princess, Body and Blood).
Former Head of International Acquisitions of XYZ and experienced festival programmer Todd Brown boards as executive producer on the project, having served as a producer or executive producer on a wide range of Cannes, Toronto and Sundance selected titles such as The Raid, Mandy, The Night Comes For Us, Blood Quantum and In Flames.
Devour is a genre-bending collision of body horror and erotic thriller, following Luisa, a former Olympic figure skater whose fall from grace leaves her grasping for control. Plagued by compulsions she can no longer contain, Luisa becomes dangerously fixated on Karla, her daughter’s 18-year-old friend. What begins as a forbidden attraction soon turns into an overpowering obsession, as Luisa’s urges migrate from self-destruction to consuming another, unravelling her life in increasingly terrifying and transgressive ways.
Orofino’s short body horror Dirty Bad Wrong premiered at and won a Silver Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Short at Fantasia Film Festival (2024). She also wrote and directed the short film, She Keeps Me, which won Best Canadian Short at the 2022 Pendance Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Short at the 2022 Female Eye Film Festival and 2022 Oakville Film Festival.
Alison Almeida produced Karupy which had its world premiere at TIFF 2025. Her associate producing credits include Reza Dahya’s Boxcutter (SXSW 2025), Amar Wala’s Shook (TIFF 2024), Durga Chew-Bose’s Bonjour Tristesse (TIFF 2024) and Hubert Davis’s The Well (Fantasia 2025).
Lucy McNulty wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the acclaimed short film CHICKEN, which was acquired by CBC after screening at more than 40 international festivals. Lucy has also produced Hunting Matthew Nichols (FilmQuest, Blood in the Snow 2024), Attendance (Whistler 2024), and How Brief, directed by Kelly McCormack and starring Emmy Award–winner Tatiana Maslany and Tess Degenstein.
Devour is one of the features recently selected by Telefilm Canada for financing under its Production Program. The lead cast is set to be announced later this year.
Devour joins Wildling Picture’s growing slate of high-end original feature films including romantic comedy Young Werther starring Alison Pill, Douglas Booth, Iris Apatow and Patrick J. Adams, and thriller feature See For Me. Wildling Pictures recently announced the lead cast of its coming-of-age romcom Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, a coproduction with MXN Entertainment. Ava Phillippe and Sam Morelos will take the lead roles of the film, directed by Tommy Dorfman.
Matt Code, Producer and President of Wildling Pictures says “Devour is a brilliantly unsettling, fearless and wildly original idea from a truly exciting new voice in Erica – and exactly the kind of bold stories we are drawn to at Wildling. We’re proud to be championing Erica’s first feature and to be joining forces with our partners Alison Almeida, Lucy McNulty and Todd Brown to bring this visionary film to audiences worldwide.”
Writer and director, Erica Orofino says “With Devour, I wanted to explore female desire, but to the extreme. What happens when someone suppresses the deepest, most shameful parts of themselves, and what happens when they finally give themselves permission to explore them? What beauty, and what destruction, does that unlock? I’m so excited to bring this thrilling body horror film to life with this team.”
