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Outbreak Of Hysteria In ‘The Secret Village’
Midnight Friends Films announces that Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls), Ali Faulkner (pictured below; Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Stelio Savante (A Million Colours, Starship Troopers Marauder, Poe) and Richard Riehle (Bridesmaids, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas) are headlining the cast of the psychological thriller The Secret Village.
While information is being kept to a minimum, The Secret Village is said to follow two strangers that rent a house in order to research a mysterious outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village.
Swampy Kandan directs with pre-production underway in Massachusetts.
Paramount Primal, the genre label run by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, has picked up the high-concept erotic thriller spec Sweet Spot, per Deadline.
Sweet Spot hails from Nic Curcio & Kirby Gladstein, the writing duo behind the upcoming horror film Play House.
No other plot details have been divulged at this time, but expect to hear a lot more from Curcio and Gladstein in the coming months thanks to the upcoming feature Play House.
Last September, the writing duo secured funding and distribution for the film when they won Fantastic Fest’s inaugural Fantastic Pitches competition. That’s where it will premiere this year: Curcio and Gladstein got married a week after production wrapped and will premiere the film at Fantastic Fest in September.
Curcio directs Play House, which triggers obsessive madness when a man uncovers disturbing VHS tapes of an unaired children’s television show hidden in the basement. Demented kids’ shows seem in vogue for horror lately, too, with the recent release of Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round and the upcoming Buddy.
Will Harrison (Daisy Jones & The Six), Jessica Sula (Split), Jordan Gonzalez (The Long Walk), and James Urbaniak (Oppenheimer) will star in Play House.
Stay tuned for more on Sweet Spot and Play Dead as we learn it.
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