Théodore Pellerin Becomes Obsessed with Pop Star Archie Madekwe in Twisted ‘Lurker’ Trailer | rssama.com

Where does nan bound betwixt lust, obsession, fandom, and devotion lie? Alex Russell’s directorial debut “Lurker” explores nan twisted quality of personage successful Los Angeles. The feature, which wowed astatine nan 2025 Sundance Film Festival, stars Théodore Pellerin arsenic Matthew, a socially-obsessed videographer who becomes entangled pinch a rising popular star, Oliver (Archie Madekwe).

Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Wale Onayemi, Daniel Zolghadri and Sunny Suljic co-star. Pat Scola (“Pig,” “Sing Sing”) was nan cinematographer.

Russell has been known for his penning and supervising producing activity connected TV bid “The Bear” and “Beef.” His debut “Lurker” became 1 of nan astir buzzed-about income titles astatine Sundance; it was later acquired by MUBI.

“The characters successful this movie are archetypes,” Russell told IndieWire earlier this year. “I’ve seen each characteristic successful this movie 10 times over. Relating to Matthew is very important because nan movie is subjective successful that way, whereas a batch of movies astir an obsessive person, moreover for illustration a ‘King of Comedy,’ it’s benignant of objective, and there’s a separation betwixt nan assemblage and nan character, and it’s a small much like, ‘Oh, look astatine this crazy feline that’s not me.’ In showing nan movie to people, group are benignant of guiltily relating to him. On a very basal level, group tin subordinate to nan thought of ‘if you want to do thing that you weren’t calved into,’ you person to put yourself retired location somehow.”

Russell continued, “To me, it was a very American story, an L.A. story, mostly because location is nan sense, successful America, I deliberation but astir apt everyplace successful nan West, that mainstream civilization celebrities [are] positioned aliases placed arsenic a shape of deities, for illustration gods. The point that group aspire to aliases emotion to and look up to and return down. … He [Matthew] enters that world wholly successful awe and past he learns of nan system and gets really disillusioned.”

The IndieWire review applauded Russell’s directing, saying, “The movie’s top feat is its attraction to nan nuances of really these men usage mocking aliases scorn to ascend a rung connected their constrictive societal ladder — and if ‘Lurker’ yet succumbs to definite genre tropes and a fistful of communicative bumps, it makes up for its limitations successful perspicacity and nan wide spot of its filmmaking.”

MUBI will merchandise “Lurker” successful theaters August 22. Check retired nan trailer below.