Welcome Villain Films has announced its acquisition of supernatural, found footage horror feature “Puzzle Box” from writer-director Jack Dignan. The film will screen at Unnamed Footage Festival on March 29, with a full release planned for sometime in the following months. “Puzzle Box” is the sixth film from Welcome Villain Films since 2023.
According to an official logline, “Puzzle Box” follows a, “recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”
“We are in the golden age of horror right now, and it’s a moment I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of,” Dignan says. “My first film, ‘After She Died,’ was described as being akin to experiencing a dream. If that film was the dream, then my new film ‘Puzzle Box’ is the nightmare. This is a terrifying, mind-bending found footage horror flick that’ll scare you, move you and give you an experience you truly cannot prepare yourself for, and there’s no better home for it than with Welcome Villain Films. This is a company that understands horror, champions the genre, and takes a strategic approach to each film, and I’m so stoked to be releasing my film with such wonderful people.”
“Puzzle Box” first premiered at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival and won best international feature at the Dead Northern Horror Film Festival in the United Kingdom.
