Mark Webber, pictured in Green Room, Rachel Hurd-Wood (An American Haunting) and Lorant Deutsch (“The Visitors: Bastille Day”) have signed on to star in Labirintus, which is to be directed by Joe Dante, Variety reports.
Dante is still a phenomenal filmmaker, even though I wasn’t a huge fan of his latest endeavor, Burying the Ex. I was, however, a fan of The Hole 3D, especially in 3D, and he even has recently directed episodes of “Witches of East End” and “Salem”. Many of the horror greats have either left us or lost their touch, yet the director of Piranha, The Howling, The ‘Burbs and Gremlins continues to work at a torrid pace.
“Labirintus tells the story of a paranormal investigator (Webber), psychiatric researcher (Hurd-Wood) and engineer (Deutsch) who join forces to explore an abandoned subterranean Soviet research facility, hidden within the dark twisting catacombs beneath Buda Castle. When supernatural forces confound and torment the group they begin to question their own sanity. To escape they must quash their fears and lead their team to find and destroy the dark heart of the maze.”
“Mark, Rachel and Lorant are phenomenal actors and I am delighted to be working with them in what I anticipate will be a suspenseful, compelling, spine-tingling chiller,” Dante explained in a press release.
Written by Alan Campbell, Labirintus is produced by Fabrice Lambot of France’s Metaluna Prods., Lucy Mukerjee-Brown of Mukerjee-Brown Prods., Elizabeth Stanley of Elizabeth Stanley Pictures and Jean-Charles Levy of Forecast Pictures. Nick Quested and Pascal Degove, managing director of Goldcrest, will serve as executive producers for Goldcrest.