EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to the body horror The Threshing and will distribute in North America and commence international sales at the EFM in Berlin this month.
Sean Mannion’s feature directorial debut premiered at SXSW Sydney and was shot entirely on a working regenerative farm. It follows a young couple searching for meaning and belonging who get absorbed into a tight-knit agricultural community whose ideals of sustainability and devotion start to take a disturbing physical toll.
As communal rituals intensify, bodies, boundaries, and beliefs break down, and the farm’s promise of harmony gives way to something invasive, obsessive, and deeply unsettling.
Simone Grossman (Collective: Unconscious), Jess Darrow (Ecanto), Jean-Louis Droulers (Pledge), Jared Kemp (The Purge: Election Year), and Zachary Zamsky (The Testament Of Ann Lee) star.
Mannion, Grossman, Darrow, and Clea DeCrane served as producers for Brassica Productions and Post Mambo, with Michael Weiss as executive producer.
“In 2020 my wife and I picked up and moved across the country so she could take a job on a regenerative farm,” Mannion said. “While that time was a totally positive one, I got kind of obsessed with the different ideologies I witnessed.”
He continued, “There can be a heaviness to belief. I started to imagine how the desire to live ethically, to be in harmony with the land could turn into something more dogmatic in the wrong hands.”
“The Threshing really gets under your skin,” Joe Yanick of Yellow Veil Pictures said. “Sean captures the environment so strongly that you can feel and taste the mixture of dirt, sweat, and blood. A remarkable debut that captures the intensity and poignancy of Wake And Fright and the stark immediacy of something like Raw.”
Yellow Veil plans a North American release later in 2026. Prior releases include Gaspar Noé’s Lux Æterna, and Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Cannes Midnight selection Rebel.
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