A Female-Led Horror Film About Grief and the Body Just Wrapped Production in Nashville

A striking new psychological horror feature has just completed filming, and its cast list reads like a gathering of genre and prestige television favorites.

According to Deadline, Amanda Righetti of The Mentalist, William Mapother of Lost, and Spencer Locke of Insidious: The Last Key have joined the cast of Shed, a female-led psychological horror film that recently wrapped production in Nashville, Tennessee.

The film is written by and stars Valerie Jane Parker, known for her role in The Bikeriders, and is directed by Mila Vilaplana. The story follows Becca, a woman who appears outwardly successful but is emotionally isolated, as long-buried trauma begins to manifest physically, haunting her from within her own body.

The supporting cast includes Kym Jackson of We Bury the Dead, Armando Rivera, currently attached to an untitled Onyx/Hulu project, Lilian Rebelo of Only Murders in the Building, Audrey Venable of Marbles, Taylor Novak of Where the Bullets Go, Liz Atwater of Hellcat, and Ronnie Meek.

Shed is the product of a predominantly female creative team and is being produced by two female-owned production companies, Preacher’s Daughter Pictures and Dipsomania. The feature builds directly on a proof-of-concept short created by Vilaplana and Parker, which was accepted into ten film festivals before the team moved forward with expanding it into a full-length film.

Sarah Haas is producing the project, with Valerie Jane Parker, Chris Connor, and Cole Pendery of Shadowwood Entertainment serving as executive producers.

Speaking about the project, director Vilaplana described Shed as a story that explores grief, identity, and the body through a distinctly female perspective, expressing enthusiasm about the specific strengths that Righetti, Locke, and Mapother each bring to the world of the film.

Parker echoed that sentiment, noting that audience response to the original proof-of-concept short made clear just how strongly the story resonated with viewers. Expanding it into a feature, she explained, gave the team the opportunity to explore themes of trauma and transformation in a way that feels both deeply personal and genuinely unsettling. At its heart, she described Shed as a horror story centered on grief, survival, and the strange, often disturbing ways the body holds onto memory.