Elijah Wood's work ethic shows no signs of faltering. This year alone he's been a part of Set Fire To The Stars, Cooties, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (as producer only), mini-series Over The Garden Wall and TV comedy Wilfred. Somewhere in there he also found time to star in the new film from Timecrimes' Nacho Vigalondo. Open Windows is a loose riff on Hitchcock's Rear Window, where the windows in question are tabs on a computer screen. And look: here's another one containing the new trailer!
Wood plays Nick, a fan of actress Jill Goddard (former porn star Sasha Gray). Nick wins a date with his heroine in an online competition, but she pulls out of the arrangement, and Nick is then contacted by someone posing as her publicist, offering him the chance to follow her every movement by web and phone-cam. Turns out, however, that the fake publicist is a psycho called Chord (voiced by Kill List's Neil Maskell) and a deadly game is afoot.
Typically experimental for the restless Vigalondo, the entire film plays out via those proliferating computer desktop windows: an intriguing detour on the found footage road, where multiple sources are playing out at the same time.
Shot and completed a year ago, Open Windows has been on the festival circuit ever since, and finally gets a proper release in the UK on October 17.