Director: Raymond Wood
A rising scream queen becomes the target of her own mythology in Faceless After Dark, Raymond Wood's 2023 home-invasion thriller starring Jenna Kanell. The setup is simple and unnerving: fame from a single horror role turns into a private nightmare once a masked admirer shows up uninvited after dark.
What is Faceless After Dark about?
Bowie, the actress at the center of the story, is still riding the attention from a breakout turn in a killer-clown slasher when an obsessive follower decides to blur the line between performance and reality. Disguised as the character that made her famous, he corners her at home after dark, and what begins as an unsettling encounter quickly turns into a fight to outlast a single, brutal night. Wood keeps the geography tight, mostly one house with one clock ticking toward dawn, and lets Kanell carry the tension as Bowie improvises her way toward a way out.
Cast & crew
Jenna Kanell, familiar to horror audiences from prior genre work, anchors nearly every frame as Bowie, alternating between practiced composure and raw panic. Danny Kang and Danielle Lyn round out the small cast trapped in the same house, while Catherine Corcoran, Jason MacDonald, Max Calder, Michael Aaron Milligan, and Kathrine Barnes fill out supporting roles that widen the sense of a night nobody escapes clean. Director Raymond Wood keeps the ensemble small on purpose, so every new face reads as either a threat or a lifeline.
Context & significance
Faceless After Dark leans into a specific horror lineage: the killer-clown subgenre reframed as a stalker thriller, where the mask itself becomes both joke and weapon. It arrived in 2023 as part of a wave of low-budget genre pictures built around a single location and a ticking clock, a format that rewards tight plotting over spectacle. The film treats celebrity and fandom as its real subject, using the horror trappings to ask what happens when an audience refuses to let a performer walk away from a role that made her famous.
Where & how to watch
Faceless After Dark streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, so the film plays comfortably for viewers who prefer either option. The page itself is free to read; watching the film only requires a K-Time account login, inside an interface built around the Farsi-speaking diaspora rather than translated afterward.