Alicia Witt stars in Colombian horror thriller Incuba Project

By Marcus Bennett

Alicia Witt will star in Red Collision Studios’ Incuba Project, an English-language Colombian horror thriller with María Camila Giraldo that is slated to shoot in Colombia.

Red Collision Studios gives Giraldo the role of Jhoana. Witt plays Minerva, the head and caretaker of the Maternity Incuba Care agency. Chilean filmmaker Juan Pablo Arias directs.

Red Collision Studios houses the in-house writers’ room, Red Script Factory. Its first feature is Incuba Project. Producers Vanessa Gómez and Sebastián Caballero founded the studio in Colombia.

Caballero, CEO of Red Collision Studios, set out the company’s film strategy:

“We’re building a slate of genre films made in Colombia for a global audience, with original stories developed in our own writers’ room.”

“‘Incuba Project’ is the clearest expression of that: a story rooted in Latin American reality, told with the scale and talent to travel anywhere.”

According to Red Collision Studios, María Camila Caballero Páez wrote the drama. She is an in-house Red Collision writer and previously wrote Más allá de la lluvia. Jhoana is a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to make ends meet and care for her young son.

Red Collision Studios’ synopsis follows Jhoana as she meets women in similar circumstances at Maternity Incuba Care, an agency that promises help on one condition: they spend all nine months of pregnancy inside its remote facility. As her pregnancy advances, the women vanish one by one. Jhoana uncovers the secret the agency has concealed.

Arias described the balance he sees in the project:

“‘Incuba Project’ has a premise rich in horror textures, with many opportunities to build atmosphere and fear, but it also carries a very specific line of political and social critique. Not every film manages that combination.”

“This is a project that can walk the line between commercial and auteur filmmaking in a clear and determined way and that’s what drew me to it. I’m very happy that this is also what Red Collision wants to do with the film.”

Red Collision Studios lists Casa Grande with Lou Diamond Phillips among Arias’s credits. It also names the horror feature The Curse of the Necklace (2024), which Warner Bros. released theatrically in the U.S.

Vanessa Gómez, executive producer at Red Collision Studios, said:

“Genre cinema has the power to expose what others prefer not to talk about; ‘Get Out’ is a great example of that.”

“In ‘Incuba Project,’ the horror is rooted in what is done to the female body: the exploitation of migrant women who, seeking a better life for their families, end up being used by a system that treats them as commodities.”

Gómez added:

“We wanted to tell this story because Jhoana’s fight is the fight of millions of women whose bodies have been turned into a business, and this film is our way of making sure they are no longer invisible.”

Red Collision Studios notes that Witt starred opposite Nicolas Cage in the box-office hit Longlegs. It calls Incuba Project her return to horror after Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) and Rebecca Kezian’s Twisted (2026), the latter with Djimon Hounsou.

Red Collision Studios also lists Giraldo’s recent roles opposite Al Pacino and Dan Stevens in the exorcism thriller The Ritual. It places her alongside Amy Adams in Kornél Mundruczó’s At the Sea, which screened in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

Founded in 2017, Red Collision Studios also runs the production service company Film in Colombia and the post-production studio Magic Trick Post Lab. The company places Gómez and Caballero among a new generation of Colombian producers. It says film incentives have boosted international location shoots and local filmmaking.

Red Collision’s Chile connection predates Incuba Project. In July, filming began on La puta vida, a five-country co-production. Red Collision leads production with Chile’s Afro Films. The film stars Colombian actor Claudio Cataño of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Red Collision Studios’ filmography also includes:

• The Judge’s Shadow, a thriller directed by Libia Stella Gomez.
• A Certain Alonso Quijano, a dramedy directed by Libia Stella Gomez.
• The Lagoon, directed by Octavio Revol Molina.

What does this change for Colombian genre filmmaking?

Incuba Project is Red Script Factory’s first feature and the clearest test of the in-house model. Red Collision has not announced a budget, production schedule or release date. The practical measure is whether a story rooted in Latin American reality can reach the global audience Caballero names while preserving the critique Arias and Gómez describe.

The Colombian shoot is the next concrete test. Production dates, budget and release schedule remain unannounced, leaving the film’s projected global reach and political force untested.