Boy Harsher’s pivot toward cinema has been gathering momentum for years. Long before The Runner, the duo were already treating their music videos as short films: the David Lynch–inspired motel-room fever dream for “Face the Fire,” the obsessive noir-voyeur intensity of “Come Closer,” and the doomed vampire story of “Fate,” which plays like a nocturnal film carved down to a few bloody minutes. Their visuals have increasingly leaned into mood over explanation, a tendency sharpened through recurring collaborations with production team Muted Widows, whose work with the band pushes close-ups, negative space, and uneasy stillness into something that feels like scenes lifted from a larger, unseen feature.
By the time The Runner arrived in 2022—an unruly fusion of genre impulses, haunted pop ritual, and blood-tinted surrealism—it was clear that Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller weren’t just scoring imaginary films; they were already halfway to making them. The cast underscored that shift: Kris Esfandiari of King Woman, Mariana Saldaña of BOAN, Cooper B. Handy, and unmasked industrial luminary Kontravoid all drifted through its uncanny frame, forming a constellation of underground figures orbiting Boy Harsher’s expanding visual world. The project paved the way for Matthews’ later screenplay work on werewolf film My Animal, and for Muller’s growing presence in both band and score work—including Safe Mind, his collaborative band with Handy, and an increasingly wide slate of tension-laden compositions.
Now that evolution has arrived in full. The pair have wrapped production on their first feature-length film, The Lonely Woman, a horror-thriller starring Chloë Sevigny, FKA twigs, Sturgill Simpson, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy. The film centers on a grieving woman haunted by the death of her first love inside a mountain tunnel, drawn toward forces described as “seductive and terrifying.” The casting feels pointed, especially with Sevigny, whose long-standing devotion to experimental cinema, queer nightlife, and fringe music has made her a fixture in the very worlds Boy Harsher came up through.
In announcing the project, the band finally acknowledged their sudden disappearance this fall. They explained that if anyone had been wondering where they went, the answer was simple: they were shooting a movie. Production wrapped during an overnight shoot that involved a kill scene, a haze of exhaustion, and what they described as the “drama” of making a first feature. Only then, they said, could they share the secret: the film is called The Lonely Woman.
They described the film as “a horror film, an erotic thriller, a creature feature, a weird one, a fun one, a sweet one,” and credited its completion to “our tremendous cast and crew.” They also thanked Chloë Sevigny directly “for giving everything to The Lonely Woman.”
More details—release information, stills, teasers, and, of course, music—have not been shared yet but are expected soon.
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