Despite Halloween Ends being the final chapter for her renowned character Laurie Strode, Jamie Lee Curtis will continue to shock horror fans in her new role as producer. Today marks the premiere of the official trailer for Return to Sender, a short horror film produced by Curtis’s Comet Pictures. Exclusively released by Bloody Disgusting, the Return to Sender teaser depicts a lady who gets a mysterious box in the mail. When she finds out that someone else is reviewing products under her account, the fraud takes on an even more sinister tone.
The lady is tormented by the strange parcel delivery scam, which begins with a ski mask and a vehicle alarm but quickly escalates to include more intimate items. Curtis co-created and produced the picture, which stars Allison Tolman (Krampus) and was written and directed by Russell Goldman. Currently, Return to Sender has been accepted into over 20 film festivals, and its online debut will take place on Alter and Omeleto in the month of November. Prior to its premiere at Beyond Fest on October 1 in Los Angeles, the short will have its world premiere at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 24 and September 26, tied to Quentin Dupieux’s wacky comedy movie Smoking Causes Coughing.
In an interview, Goldman said that the experience of getting a bizarre item in place of a Valentine’s Day present had served as inspiration for the premise of Return to Sender.
I was alerted to something. My Valentine’s Day present for my sweetheart had just been delivered. Inside, I opened the package only to find that it did not include the goods I had paid for. Instead, I was given two worn, smelly shin guards that I promptly put away. Although it may not make much sense, I felt like I was invading my own privacy by carrying the parcel I had bought inside my house. Whoever had done this kept running through my head. I don’t get why they’d do anything like this.
To quote Goldman: Goldman further by saying that Curtis mentioned her sister had a similar strange experience with a delivery fraud, “getting walking sticks that she didn’t order but she still needed.” Goldman got obsessed with the idea, and he wrote Return to Sender as “a short about our yearning for control over our life” to get it out of his head.
The feature-length horror film Mother Nature, written and directed by Goldman and Curtis for Comet Pictures and Blumhouse Pictures, is now under production. Although the eco-horror story has yet to be completed, the authors have also penned a graphic book adaptation for Titan Comics, which has illustrations by Karl Stevens.