Alicia Witt takes lead role in Colombian horror film about surrogacy exploitation

Alicia Witt will play the head of a remote pregnancy facility in an upcoming English-language thriller. The film, titled Incuba Project, marks the first feature from Red Script Factory, the internal writing unit of Red Collision Studios. It will be shot on location in Colombia.

Witt joins Maria Camila Giraldo, who plays a Colombian immigrant named Jhoana. The character turns to surrogacy to support her young son. She agrees to spend her entire nine months of pregnancy at an agency called Maternity Incuba Care. As her condition advances, the other women in the program begin to vanish. Jhoana then uncovers the institution's hidden secrets.

Witt portrays Minerva, the agency head and caretaker of the women. This role returns the actress to the horror genre. She previously appeared in the 2024 hit Longlegs and the 2026 film Twisted. Giraldo recently acted in The Ritual alongside Al Pacino and Dan Stevens. She also starred with Amy Adams in At the Sea, which screened in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

Juan Pablo Arias, a Chilean filmmaker, directs the project. He described the film as a balance of commercial appeal and auteur filmmaking. Arias noted that the script offers specific political and social critique. His previous credits include Casa Grande and the 2024 horror film The Curse of the Necklace, which Warner Bros. released theatrically in the United States.

Sebastian Caballero, CEO of Red Collision Studios, said the story is grounded in local reality while possessing the scale for an international audience. He called the project the clearest expression of the company's mission. The script was written by in-house writer Maria Camila Caballero Paez. She previously worked on the film Mas alla de la lluvia.

Vanessa Gomez, an executive producer, stated that the film uses genre cinema to expose issues often ignored by mainstream narratives. She compared the approach to the movie Get Out. Gomez said the horror is rooted in the exploitation of the female body. The story addresses migrant women who seek better lives for their families but are treated as commodities by a system that uses them.

Red Collision Studios was founded in Colombia in 2017 by Gomez and Sebastian Caballero. The company aims to create a slate of genre films rooted in Latin American realities. It also operates the production service company Film in Colombia and the post-production studio Magic Trick Post Lab. Filming began in July for the five-country co-production La puta vida, which stars Claudio Cataño.

The studio's slate includes the thriller The Judge's Shadow and the dramedy A Certain Alonso Quijano. Both films are directed by Libia Stella Gomez. The company is also developing The Lagoon, which will be directed by Octavio Revol Molina.