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McGowan, Stahl and Smart are ‘Dead Awake’
Sliding under all of our radars is Omar Naim’s Dead Awake, which stars Nick Stahl (Mirrors 2), Rose McGowan (Scream), Amy Smart (Butterfly Effect, Mirrors), Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, and James Serpento. In the film Stahl plays a young man working in a funeral parlor who is trying to unravel a 10-year-old mystery that will end up uncovering the truth that lies between the living and the dead. Inside you’ll find the poster and trailer for the thriller that’ll see a limited release next month.
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.