“Good Madam” (“Mlungu Wam”) has found a home. Described by writer-director Jenna Cato Bass as “a horror satire about a young single mom struggling to reconcile with her estranged mother, a live-in domestic worker who obsessively cares for her elderly, white Madam in the suburbs of Cape Town,” the South African pic premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Shudder just snagged rights to the supernatural story and is planning a release in late 2022, per Deadline. The deal includes North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Chumisa Cosa and Nosipho Mtebe star in the film, which Bass co-wrote with Babalwa Baartman.

“All the films I work on come about when several things fall into place, or click in my head. In this case, I’d really been wanting to to explore the horror genre,” Bass told us. “For most of my life I’d been completely unable to watch scary movies: I was a sensitive child. At the same time, genre means nothing to me without substance — what it’s saying about our world. So I wanted to tell a story about a domestic worker who gets to reclaims her agency, along with the home she has lived and worked in her whole life. So using this particular genre was a way to provide a literal exorcism of our country’s trauma.”

Bass co-wrote “Rafiki,” Wanuri Kahiu’s 2018 romance about two women in Kenya. Her directing credits include “Flatland” and “High Fantasy.” The former was the opening film of the 2019 Berlinale Panorama.