Alistair Orr (Triggered) is currently enjoying a theatrical run in South Africa with the release of the new action thriller, Hunting Jessica Brok. The film, starring Danica De La Rey Jones in the title role, is currently poised for release in the U.S. as well, following its acquisition by Quiver a few month ago.
She was a ghost. A knife in boots. Special forces-trained, war-tested, emotionally cauterised. Once upon a time, Jessica Brok had a name that meant death in several dialects. Then she went off-grid. Vanished. She renamed herself Linda. Got a kid. A dusty little house. A vulture rescue centre. Because nothing screams emotional healing like feeding dead rats to scavengers.
She thought she was done being a weapon. She thought wrong.
Enter Daniel. Ex-lover. Ex-comrade. Ex-everything. Long presumed dead, now resurrected in her driveway with a bullet wound and a story soaked in blood. He says they’re coming — the same men who trafficked children, murdered civilians, burned entire villages to hide the evidence. The ones they didn’t kill the first time. Turns out, evil doesn’t die. It adapts. It evolves. And it has Jessica’s name on a list.
What follows is a sun-scorched fever dream of violence. Jessica is dragged back into the kill-or-be-killed ballet she thought she’d retired from. Only this time she’s slower, rustier, with a daughter who might become collateral damage. They take her. They torture her. They try to make her small again. They forget who she is.
Bad idea.
Jessica Brok is a chemical reaction. Grief + Guilt + Training = Apocalypse. She peels off her motherhood like a skin she no longer fits in. She becomes the ghost again. The shadow. The beast in the long grass. Armed with guilt and a knife, she unravels every inch of their outfit with the precision of someone who’s memorised anatomy from the inside out.
Every scar she earns is a story. Every broken bone is an indictment. Every death she delivers is a sacrament. The bush becomes a church, and she is the sermon — brutal, efficient, and unforgettable.
By the end, the question isn’t whether she’ll survive — it’s whether the part of her that’s human ever comes back.
Because some people go through hell.
Jessica Brok built a home there.
…oof! Is that long pitch or what?
I only caught this trailer by dumb luck on Wednesday but I’m happy to share it as an intro to its rollout stateside from Quiver on September 19. Clyde Berning and Richard Lukunku also star from a script by Orr, and co-scribes Garth McCarthy, and David. D Jones.
South African label Known Associates is one of the banners behind the film who’ve shepherded the official trailer below.
