Alicia Witt and María Camila Giraldo Lead Horror Thriller 'Incuba Project'

Alicia Witt and María Camila Giraldo will star together in Incuba Project, a horror thriller slated to shoot in Colombia. Variety reported the casting on 9 November 2026.

The film is in English, which is worth noting for a Colombian production. It is directed by Chilean filmmaker Juan Pablo Arias, who has made horror before. His earlier feature, The Curse of the Necklace (2024), was released theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros. He also directed Casa Grande, which stars Lou Diamond Phillips.

Giraldo plays Jhoana, a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to support her young son. Surrogacy is when a woman carries a baby for another person or couple. Witt plays Minerva, the head of the Maternity Incuba Care agency. Giraldo's recent work includes The Ritual, the exorcism thriller where she appeared opposite Al Pacino and Dan Stevens.

The script was written by María Camila Caballero Páez. It is the first feature from Red Script Factory, the in-house writers' room of Red Collision Studios. A writers' room is a team of writers who develop stories together under one company's roof.

Red Collision was founded in 2017 in Colombia by producers Vanessa Gómez and Sebastián Caballero. The company also runs two other businesses. Film in Colombia is a production service company, which arranges crews, locations and equipment for films shot in the country. Magic Trick Post Lab is a post-production studio, where films are edited, mixed and finished after filming.

So the project moves through several stages from here. It has a script, a director and a cast, and it is due to shoot in Colombia. The announcement does not give a start date for filming or a release date.

For the people involved, a casting announcement is often the first public sign that a film is moving ahead. Writers, local crews and post-production teams all depend on projects like this one reaching the set.