According to Variety, writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror film Puzzle Box has been acquired by Welcome Villain Films. On March 29, the film will screen at the Unnamed Footage Festival and will have a wide release in the months following the festival. This will be Welcome Villain Films’ sixth film acquisition since 2023.

An official logline for Puzzle Box describes the film as focusing on a “recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”

Commenting on his film, Dignan states, “We are in the golden age of horror right now, and it’s a moment I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of…This is a terrifying, mind-bending found footage horror flick that’ll scare you, move you, and give you an experience you truly cannot prepare yourself for, and there’s no better home for it than Welcome Villain Films. This is a company that understands horror, champions the genre, and takes a strategic approach to each film, and I’m so stoked to be releasing my film with such wonderful people.”

Dignan’s film had its premiere at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival and also won the award for Best International Feature at the UK’s Dead Northern Horror Film Festival.