Feature film
Special advance screening at Monster Fest | October 2026
World premiere at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival | October 2026
Interview with director Michael Schwarz at The Curb | October 2026
“The Only One is a sharp, bloody homegrown slasher about coming home, confronting your past and discovering that some old flames never truly go out.”
Directed by Michael Schwarz. Written by Martyn Pedler and Marek Polgar. It stars Mel Jarnson as Zoe, surrounded by an Australian ensemble including Saphira Moran, Aaron Glenane, John Kim, Lincoln Younes and Sam Delich.
“Ten years after moving to LA and failing to launch an acting career, Zoe (Mel Jarnson, Mortal Kombat, the upcoming Street Fighter) returns home to small town Australia to attend a high school friend’s wedding where she’s awkwardly confronted by a flurry of old flames. When these exes are suddenly being murdered one by one, suspicion falls on Zoe and it’s up to her and a ragtag team of old friends to prove her innocence and figure out the identity of the masked Prince Charming killer. Celebrating its World Premiere at Brooklyn Horror, The Only One plays out a twisted reverse-Scott Pilgrim scenario in joyfully throwback fashion, with debut director Michael Schwarz calling back to the early aughts slasher canon.”
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