St Vincent to write and direct her first horror film

Annie Clark is thought to be exploring 'overriding anxieties about female-ness'

Annie Clark is working on a film for a horror anthology directed by women

First, St Vincent created her own guitar with “room for a breast” and now, she’s writing and directing her first horror movie.

The art rock singer, real name Annie Clark, is working on a film in the XX horror anthology. Four Deadly Tales by Four Killer Women will be in four parts, with each one written and directed by a different female creative: Clark, and filmmakers Jennifer Lynch, Karyn Kusama and Jovanka Vuckovic.

Jennifer’s Body director Kusama first confirmed the news on a Killer POV podcast. “Jovanka’s film is finished, mine is finished, I think we’re waiting on Annie Clark from St Vincent, who is now making her own films,” she said. “She has a film in it.”

Kusama hinted that the films will be “very different [with] overriding anxieties about female-ness to a degree”.

“I want to say body horror is a component,” she continued. “I remember my first idea I couldn’t do because not that it was…too similar, but thematically, we were treading in the same waters. Todd Brown (producer) feels pretty certain that they’ll end up being natural thematic alignments.”

Clark announced the news herself shortly afterwards, sharing a poster for the anthology on her Instagram page. “So thrilled to be able to explore the genre,” she wrote underneath.