#FIRSTLOOK: “LURKER” COMING TO MUBI CANADA
MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, will release Lurker, the boundary-pushing debut feature from writer/director Alex Russell (The Bear, Beef), in Canadian theatres on August 22, 2025.
The film received its World Premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, its International Premiere in the 2025 Berlinale, and is the Closing Night selection for 2025 New Directors/New Films. Praised as “unsettling… audacious” (IndieWire) and “darkly compelling” (The Guardian), Lurker stars Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin (Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Franklin, Beau is Afraid), Archie Madekwe (Saltburn, Midsommar), Sunny Suljic (Mid90s), Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms, Hal & Harper), Zack Fox (Abbott Elementary, Pause with Sam Jay), and Daniel Zolghadri (Y2K, Eighth Grade).
Lurker was produced by Alex Orlovsky (His Three Daughters, Memory, Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Duncan Montgomery (His Three Daughters, Memory), Galen Core (Pet Shop Days, The Sweet East), Charlie McDowell (The One I Love, The Summer Book), Jack Selby (His Three Daughters), Marc Marrie (His Three Daughters), Francesco Melzi d’Eril (Bones and All, Suspiria), Olmo Schnabel (Pet Shop Days), and Archie Madekwe. Production companies include High Frequency Entertainment, MeMo, Arts & Sciences, TWIN Pictures and Case Study Films.
SYNOPSIS
When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
The directorial debut from The Bear and Beef writer-producer Alex Russell, LURKER is an exhilarating cat-and-mouse thriller made for the moment. Online fixation meets reality in this parasocial, paranoid film driven by a brilliant score and star-making performances.
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Alex Russell is the writer & director behind LURKER, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. He most recently served as a Co-Executive Producer on Netflix/A24’s BEEF, for which he won an Emmy award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. And he was recently a Supervising Producer on FX’s THE BEAR. His episode – ep 207 – titled “Forks,” was one of the best reviewed episodes of television last year and nominated for a WGA award. He got his start as a staff writer on the first two seasons of DAVE – and was also recently a Producer on Hulu’s series INTERIOR CHINATOWN.
