Eli Roth’s fan-owned 360 media company, The Horror Section, is expanding its slate of boundary-pushing horror with the award-winning “Dream Eater,” a found-footage chiller from the Canadian genre trio behind Blind Luck Pictures. Co-written and co-directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams and starring Williams and Drumm, the film will debut theatrically on October 24, 2025.
Blending raw, documentary-style realism with escalating tension and scares, “Dream Eater” looks to deliver an unshakable nightmare that lingers long after the final frame – tailor-made for today’s watch-through-your-fingers audiences.
The story follows Mallory (Mallory Drumm), a documentary filmmaker, who heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her boyfriend Alex (Alex Lee Williams) to document his violent parasomnia. As his condition worsens, Mallory suspects something more sinister may be at play. As the nightmares escalate, so do the scares, right through the final frame. The film is already drawing comparisons to “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity.”
“I vividly remember every movie that truly terrified me,” says Eli Roth, Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Horror Section. “I remember standing on 25th street in New York City when my friend Kevin Foxe handed me a VHS of a film he had produced, which had just gotten into Sundance, called ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ and that night I had to sleep with the lights on. I remember watching a screener of ‘Paranormal Activity’ during the filming of ‘Inglorious Basterds’ in my apartment in Berlin, and I was so freaked out that I had to give it to Quentin to traumatize him as well. And then there was ‘Dream Eater,’ watching this movie alone, in my house, and turning on the lights because it was that scary. It has been so long since I have been truly terrified by a film to such a degree that I had almost forgotten what it felt like. What these three filmmakers have pulled is not just remarkable on a low-budget DIY filmmaking level; they achieve the holy grail of horror, which is to make a movie that absolutely terrifies you. I was so blown away that I sent the film to everyone at The Horror Section, and we all agreed that this is ‘the one.’ I believe ‘Dream Eater’ will be the scariest film of the year and truly has the potential to break out to be the next ‘Paranormal Activity’ or ‘The Blair Witch Project’. I don’t want to over-describe it; the film speaks for itself. I cannot wait to see this in a dark theater with a packed audience hiding under their seats.”
“Dream Eater” marks the second feature collaboration between Drakulic, Drumm, and Williams as a directing trio under their Blind Luck Pictures banner, with both films being executive produced and financed by Vortex Media. Together, they bring a multi-perspective voice to the genre rooted in DIY filmmaking and a shared love of horror. “Dream Eater” marks a further step forward as the film has garnered strong word-of-mouth buzz online and earned multiple awards, including Best Feature at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon.
“We were tired of waiting for permission to make our next film, so we put everything on the line and did it ourselves with the help of a small but mighty crew deep in the snowy Laurentian mountains. To now be joining forces with the master of horror himself, Eli Roth, and the incredible team at The Horror Section to bring Dream Eater to audiences worldwide is beyond a dream come true… It’s a nightmare realized – in the best possible way,” says Alex Lee Williams, Jay Drakulic, and Mallory Drumm, creators of Blind Luck Pictures.
North of the border, Vortex Media will handle Canadian distribution with a release synced up to the US date. The deal was negotiated by Jon Schnaars and Connor DiGregorio on behalf of The Horror Section, with Justin Rebelo and Bill Marks representing Vortex Media.
“I’m very happy to see our second film with the talented filmmakers at Blind Luck find a champion with Eli Roth’s The Horror Section,” said Bill Marks, Executive Chairman, Vortex Media. “It’s the kind of bold, genre-defining work we aim to support, and we’re excited to bring it to Canadian audiences.”
“Dream Eater” is the latest theatrical release from The Horror Section; Eli Roth’s new independent studio launched in partnership with Media Capital Technologies. Following the August 15 release of Joe Begos’ “Jimmy and Stiggs,” “Dream Eater” continues the company’s mission to platform emerging horror talent and deliver bold, unrated experiences worldwide.
