# Dubai-Based Director Faisal Hashmi Launches Spine Drop Pictures & Inaugural Horror Slate

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dubai-based-director-faisal-hashmi-launches-spine-drop-pictures-inaugural-horror-slate/
- Published: 2026-10-31T10:35:47+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-31T11:20:05+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/dubai-faisal-hashmi-spine-drop-pictures-horror-slate-1237210593/
- Topics: Business, Companies, Entertainment, Horror

## Key points

- Faisal Hashmi has launched horror-focused company Spine Drop Pictures.
- Its first slate includes three features set in Dubai, the UAE and Karachi.
- The films are planned as high-concept productions budgeted below $1 million.

## Summary

Dubai-based director and writer Faisal Hashmi has launched Spine Drop Pictures, a production company focused on genre films, and announced three horror features. The venture aims to show how contained, high-concept stories can be made on budgets below $1 million, supporting commercially viable filmmaking in the UAE’s emerging independent film market.

The slate comprises *Off Plan*, an anthology of six connected stories set in Dubai over one night; *Cinder*, a supernatural thriller expanding on Hashmi’s award-winning short *Amber*; and *Latching*, a feminist possession-revenge story set in Karachi. Hashmi has made 10 genre shorts, which have earned more than three million combined YouTube views, and is seeking investment, co-production, financing and distribution partners for the films.

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