Filmmaker Joe Begos, whose horror pics Almost Human and The Mind’s Eye made their world premieres during the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness sections, has announced his next supernatural thriller, Dragged Into Sunlight.
Deadline reports that Dora Madison (pictured above left; “Friday Night Lights”, Exists, Everybody Wants Some, Dark Places, The Loft), Tru Collins (MTV’s “Awkward”, Insecure), and Rhys Wakefield (pictured below in The Purge, “True Detective”) will topline this story about a brilliant painter who is facing the worst creative block of her life (Madison).
“She turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.”
The pic, directed, written and also produced by Begos, reps the third in his canon and was shot in 16MM using practical effects.
Josh Ethier also produces with Begos for Channel 83 Films. George Wendt (“Cheers”), Abraham Benrubi (“Bosch”, “APB”, The Belko Experiment), Chris McKenna (“90210”, “State of Affairs”), Graham Skipper (Almost Human, Sequence Break) and Jeremy Gardner (The Battery, Like Me, Psychopaths) also star.
Financing was arranged through Lyle Kanouse (Sequence Break), Audrey Wasilewski (Sequence Break), and Terry Shaikh. Madison, Skipper, and Caroline Metz also serve as producers.
