# The Acolyte creator is directing a “twisted mother-daughter story” body horror movie starring Rosamund Pike

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-acolyte-creator-is-directing-a-twisted-mother-daughter-story-body-horror-movie-starring-rosamund-pike/
- Published: 2026-11-06T12:28:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T13:52:19+00:00
- Original publisher: GamesRadar+
- Original article: https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/horror-movies/the-acolyte-creator-is-directing-a-twisted-mother-daughter-story-body-horror-movie-starring-rosamund-pike/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, Horror

## Key points

- Rosamund Pike stars in body horror film Feed.
- Leslye Headland will direct the mother-daughter story.
- The film has no release date yet.

## Summary

Leslye Headland, creator of The Acolyte, is directing Feed, a body horror film starring Rosamund Pike. The story explores parental ambition and protection through a mother whose search for a supplement to help her daughter brings about a monstrous transformation.

Pike will play Erin and also produce the film. Daniella Isaacs wrote the script, inspired by the 2022 Finnish film Hatching; Feed has no release date yet. Headland’s The Acolyte was cancelled after one season in 2024, despite being Disney Plus’s second most-viewed original series that year.

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