The pic is a trippy genre movie that follows reclusive rock star Moretti ( John Malkovich ), who emerges after being decades away to invite a group of journalists to his cult compound.

"Opus" pairs one of Hollywood's hottest young actors with a living legend in a treatise on fame, the music industry and cults of creativity.

In Mark Anthony Green's debut feature, also starring Tony Hale, Juliette Lewis and Murray Bartlett, a young writer scores an invite to the remote compound of a legendary musician.

A remote location. A group of unsuspecting, idiosyncratic hopefuls. A murderous plan that would eliminate them one by one. The formula is nearly a fool-proof one to pull off an entertaining horror-thriller,

Sundance: Murray Bartlett and Juliette Lewis co-star in Mark Anthony Green's superficial misfire of a movie about the cultish nature of modern celebrity.

Following his career as a GQ fashion columnist, writer-director Mark Anthony Green makes his feature debut with a chillingly relevant dark comedic horror that gives Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich some of their meatiest performances yet.