Do not peek, a horror film set in Animal Crossing and the real world, goes from short film to feature film, Deadline reported on Wednesday. The short film originally appeared on SXSW Online earlier this week. Timur Bekmambetov – Director of Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunters – and his production banner, Bazelevs, picked it up for a full-length production.
Do not peek, created by Julian Terry, is a six-minute horror film in which he appears Animal transition: New horizons. In short, an unnamed woman plays the Nintendo Switch game on her bed late at night. She quickly realizes that everything she does in the game happens in her actual bedroom – opening a drawer, turning off the light, and so on.
After only a few minutes of experimentation, the woman sees a silhouette of a monster in the doorway of her Animal Crossing home. The monster then continues to torment the woman in both her virtual and real bedrooms. It’s a pretty creepy short film that should resonate with Animal Crossing decorators late at night, and definitely an idea that someone could expand into a longer film.
It is not clear at this stage whether Bekmambetov will direct the full-length version of the director himself. Do not peek.