Described as a “female fever dream of revenge and gothic horror,” the synopsis of “Sister Darkness” sounds as gonzo as the best of Proyas’ output. Set in the 1930s U.K., the film follows a newly married woman named Alice who is not at all happy. She encounters her doppelganger, Isla, who happens to be on a mission of bloody revenge. The term “supernatural hellscape” was included in the description of the doppelganger’s origins as well as the promise of an uprising against the aristocracy. 

The official statement from 108 Media says that “Sister Darkness” will be made in the same vein as “The Crow” and promises to return the writer/director to his filmmaking roots. Proyas’s inspiration is said to come from U.K. horror of the ’60s and ’70s, films like “The Innocents” and “The Legend of Hell House.” 

Side note: this era of U.K. horror was also a heavy inspiration for Edgar Wright’s recent “Last Night in Soho,” and “Hell House” was a key reference in his “Grindhouse” trailer, the immortal “Don’t.” 

The release also adds that Proyas will be shooting this film using a fully virtual production process, which sounds to me like he built his own version of The Volume, which are the LED-screen sets that “The Mandalorian” and all the other “Star Wars” shows have been using. That should allow the filmmaker a great deal of freedom to explore all sorts of landscapes without leaving the studio, a natural evolution of the green screen that looks 100 times better.

That should mean that the $35 million spent on this movie could look double or triple that on-screen. With Proyas’ insane eye behind the lens and his madman energy on the page, that could equal a welcome bit of auteur insanity when all is said and done.