Excorio engages the horror genre and the history of cursed films through a series of visuals. These visuals act as a container for a fictional lost horror film from 1979, also titled Excorio. The project’s goal is to employ the props, advertisements, and other artifacts to describe the film’s narrative and ultimate demise. The presentation sets up an elusive experience of the film that asks viewers to unveil its secrets. Excorio utilizes the influential nature of films to fester a feeling of unease in a superstitious audience, raising the possibility that the artifacts are haunted. The fictional meta-narrative is told through a catalog, complete with images and interviews with the surviving cast. Excorio stemmed from a simple idea: the feeling of being chased. The story follows two strangers, Sylvie and Maureen, who discover that they share a singular dream, set in a fantastical carnival. They enjoy taking control over their dream's narrative and indulging in the fantasy, until a maleficent creature attempts to force its way from the women’s dreams into their waking world, imitating animals and people by wearing their skins. Just like the film, the project suggests that this very being is attempting to force its way into our world, permitted by the audience's interaction with the film's artifacts. Excorio is a love letter to late 1970's giallo films, including a single word Latin title meaning “to peel, flay, or scalp.” Sylvie and Maureen first encounter the nightmarish, costumed villain when it gifts them a costume made of skin. Like the project itself, the costumed monster is an empty vessel, a hollow skin with nothing underneath.