This report comes from the Fantastic Fest 2024, the annual genre film festival in Austin, Texas. We’ll have more reports from the ground throughout the fest.

In the filming of the Never Let Go scene in question, the filmmaker explained that it seemed even the dog was feeling the high tension in the air (pun totally intended). Coda is portrayed in the film by a canine performer named Brass, and Aja was stunned by his acting ability:

Halle Berry praises her young co-stars in the new Lionsgate horror thriller film, Never Let Go. The trio not only had to form a family unit, but they also had to become survivalists by taking knot-tying class,