Don’t spy, a horror film set in both Animal Crossing and the real world, will go from short to full-length, Deadline reported on Wednesday. The short film originally debuted on SXSW Online earlier this week. Timur Bekmambetov – director of Wanted and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – and his production banner, Bazelevs, chose him for a feature film production.
Don’t spy, created by Julian Terry, is a six-minute horror film with Cross between animals: New Horizons. In short, an unidentified woman plays the Nintendo Switch game in her bed late at night. She quickly finds out that everything she does in the game happens in her real world room – opening a drawer, turning off the light, etc.
After only a few minutes of experimentation, the woman sees the silhouette of a monster outside her home in Animal Crossing. The monster then begins to torment the woman in her virtual and real rooms. It’s a scary short film that should resonate with Animal Crossing’s decorators late at night, and certainly an idea that someone could extend to a longer film.
It is not clear at this point whether Bekmambetov himself will direct the full version of Don’t spy.