With Tate Taylor’s Ma continuing to flesh out its cast, the upcoming horror effort has now brought in the Oscar-winning Octavia Spencer.

As per Variety, Spencer will join Juliette Lewis and Luke Evans in Ma. Spencer, of course, has previously worked with director Taylor on 2011’s The Help. In fact, it was for her role in The Help that the hugely talented actress grabbed the Best Supporting Actress gong at the 2012 Academy Awards. In addition to this, Spencer was nominated for that same award in 2017 for Hidden Figures, and has again been nominated for this year’s ceremony due to her performance in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water.

Very little is known on Ma right now, although it’s being pegged as “a combination of a horror pic and a psychological thriller” by Variety. Tate Taylor himself has already teased plenty of “dark material” for the plot, and he’s now added that Spencer’s role in the film will be “the most complex character she’s ever played”. Her character will reportedly be a lonely sort whose friendship with some teenagers ends in “torturous consequences”. Yikes!

Jason Blum and his Blumhouse production company are behind the film, with Blum and The Help’s John Norris to serve as producers.