Pod (film)

Pod
Directed by	Mickey Keating
Written by	Mickey Keating
Produced by	Morgan White William Day Frank Sean Fowler
Starring	Lauren Ashley Carter Dean Cates Brian Morvant Larry Fessenden John Weselcouch
Cinematography	Mac Fisken
Edited by	Valerie Krulfeifer
Music by	Giona Ostinelli
Production companies	Alexander Groupe High Window Films Illium Pictures Pod Pictures
Distributed by	Vertical Entertainment
Release date	March 16, 2015 (2015-03-16) (SXSW)[1]
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Pod is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by Mickey Keating. It stars Lauren Ashley Carter, Dean Cates, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden, and John Weselcouch. Carter and Cates play siblings who stage an intervention for their unstable brother, played by Morvant. As the situation spirals out of control, they begin to wonder if what they had dismissed as their brother's paranoid delusions may be true. Writing was influenced by The Twilight Zone and classic horror films of the 1970s, including the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which inspired the title. Shooting took place in Maine in winter 2014. It premiered at South by Southwest on March 16, 2015, and was released theatrically on August 28, 2015. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 67% approval rating based on six reviews.