Cleansing Hour

The Challenge

A horror film that lives entirely in the collision between two registers: the slick, performative world of a fake livestreamed exorcism show, and the genuinely terrifying one that erupts when a real demon takes over. The costumes needed to serve both, visually separating the staged spectacle from the chaos that replaces it, while grounding everything in a recognisably modern, social-media-saturated reality.

The Approach

The show’s aesthetic was built on the language of religious performance dressed up for content creation: Father Max’s priestly costume carefully designed to read as authentic on camera while carrying just enough artifice to signal the fraud underneath. The crew around him were costumed in the casual, functional layer of millennial production life. When the demon takes over and the performance collapses, the wardrobe had to shift with it, reflecting physical and psychological deterioration without losing coherence. The confined studio setting put every costume choice under a harsh, unforgiving light, which made precision and intentionality all the more critical throughout.