Wildling Pictures' Body Horror Feature 'Devour' Sets Toronto and Hamilton Shoot for Fall 2026

Wildling Pictures is moving forward with Devour, a psychological body horror feature that is currently in casting and pre-production ahead of a confirmed fall 2026 shoot in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. With cameras scheduled to roll September 14 through October 9, the production is still months away from its start date, but the team is clearly building momentum now. For crew based in Southern Ontario, and for those looking to position themselves on a genre feature with serious festival pedigree behind it, this is the time to get on the radar.

At the center of the film is a genuinely unsettling premise: Luisa, a retired world champion figure skater, begins to spiral into self-destruction, and her dangerous fixation shifts away from her own body and onto her adult daughter's best friend. The story lives squarely at the intersection of psychological thriller and body horror, two genres that demand a precise and disciplined directorial hand. That hand belongs to Erica Orofino, who is also co-writing the script alongside Olivia Loccisano. Orofino arrives with a short-form track record that has turned heads in the genre community. Her short Dirty Bad Wrong took home the Silver Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Short at Fantasia Film Festival in 2024, which is no small achievement at one of the world's most respected genre festivals. Before that, her short She Keeps Me won Best Canadian Short at the 2022 Pendance Film Festival. Devour is shaping up to be Orofino's feature debut, and based on her festival run, the genre world is paying attention.

The producing team brings real infrastructure to what might otherwise be a first-time director's passion project. Wildling Pictures, the Toronto-based production company behind the film, has established a consistent output of character-driven, commercially minded Canadian features in recent years. Their slate has included the romantic comedy Young Werther, the comedy Suze, and the accessible thriller See for Me, the latter of which found genuine international distribution and helped cement the company's reputation for delivering finished, marketable films. Producers Matt Code, Todd Brown, Alison Almeida, and Lucy McNulty are all attached. Todd Brown in particular is a recognizable name in genre circles, with deep connections to the international genre film community through his work as a producer and programmer. His involvement here signals that Devour is being positioned with an eye toward festival circulation and genre audiences well beyond Canada.

Casting is already underway, which means the production's hiring timeline is active and real. The casting team is a strong one: Meg Morman, CSA and Sunday Boling Kennedy, CSA are both attached. Morman and Kennedy are well-established casting directors with credits spanning both Canadian and American productions, and their involvement typically signals a serious approach to assembling the on-screen talent. For talent agents and managers with clients right for this material, specifically women in their 40s and 50s for the lead role of Luisa, and younger women for the supporting roles, the casting process is the entry point right now.

The production shoots in Toronto and Hamilton, a pairing that has become increasingly common for Ontario-based features looking to stretch their budget and visual range. Toronto offers the full infrastructure of one of North America's busiest production markets, including deep local crew rosters, established rental houses, and proximity to stage facilities. Hamilton, about an hour southwest, has become a go-to secondary location for productions seeking grittier industrial textures, period streetscapes, and locations that read as something other than downtown Toronto. Ontario's film and television tax credit structure makes the province genuinely competitive for mid-budget features, and Wildling Pictures has clearly built their model around that ecosystem. For Southern Ontario crew, this is a local shoot with no relocation required. For department heads based elsewhere in Canada, the Toronto crew base is large enough that local hires will likely fill many positions, so early outreach is advisable.

As a genre feature in pre-production with a compressed 25-day shoot window, Devour will require a lean and efficient crew that is comfortable with the demands of psychological thriller and body horror material. Productions of this kind often lean on a strong art department to build the visual language of dread, and the figure skating world at the story's center suggests costume and production design will need to move between two very different visual registers: the polished world of competitive skating and the unraveling interior life of its lead character. A VFX pipeline may also be in play depending on how Orofino and her team choose to render the more visceral elements of the story, though the budget tier suggests practical approaches will likely be favored.

For anyone looking to crew up on a genre feature with a sharp creative vision, a festival-tested director making her feature debut, and a well-organized producing company behind it, Devour is worth tracking closely right now. The full production listing on ProductionList.com includes crew contacts, production office details, and scheduling information as it becomes available. Given that casting is active and pre-production is underway, department head conversations are very likely already happening. Do not wait on this one.

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